A very good trick to eliminate www. prefix from your URLs using the new IIS 7.0 Rewrite Module.

"With IIS 7 it is now easier than ever to customize the inner workings of ASP.NET applications using only the web.config. It is possible to remove all the features but the ones the specific application uses. In other words, we are able to lock down our applications and only turn on the features...

"For the last year and a half, the IIS product team has been working hard on building IIS extensions on top of the IIS7 platform, releasing betas, RCs and RTWs that add new support for optimizing media hosting, web content publishing, site and server administration, deployment and migration, an...

A few main issues encountered during our migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit).

This also has a usefull tip for ASP and IIS. Unfortunately, debugging custom code for SharePoint isn't as easy as just pressing F5 from inside of Visual Studio 2008--but debugging can be set up easily by following the basic steps below: Determine the process id of your app pool. Attach the Vi...

ScottHa shows how you can get to the bottom of a clear (as mud) problem when starting IIS using Process Monitor and Process Explorer and a little bit of intuition.

Making the Microsoft Web Platform Install like Microsoft Office Suite, More...

Steps to fix missing ASP.Net tab in IIS

Today in the IIS.NET Forums a question was asked if it was possible to use the same IIS Manager Users authentication in the context of a Web Application so that you could have say something like WebDAV using the same credentials as you use when using IIS Manager Remote Administration.

Do you have a high traffic site where you have a lot of WMV/AVI/FLV/PDF documents (or any other MIME type) where your maximum bandwidth of the site is utilized? Do you ever think where majority of the bandwidth would go?

Scott Hanselman describes three new preview releases the IIS7 team put out this week.

If you want to run your existing ASP.NET 1.1 websites under .NET Framework v1.1 please read this post Configuring .NET Framework 1.1 on windows vista and follow the below steps. 1. Open IIS 7 by going through Control Panel/Administrative Tools and please select the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions opt...

Redirecting an HTTP connection to HTTPS is a very common requirement for applications that use SSL channel. A common example is Outlook Web Access (OWA). With Internet Information Services 7.0, we have a new configuration system and a new user interface. Here are the steps that you will need to auto...

Load dynamic pages 5 to 20 times faster by compressing response on the fly. Serve static files (js, html, css) 10 to 100 times faster by compressing and caching their content. Improve repeated site load time by maximizing caching on browser.