As part of IIS performance tuning in improving a website load speed, in general you want to enable browser caching by double-clicking on HTTP Response Headers in IIS Manager and check the Expire Web content: and set the After: with an x number of … [Continue reading]
If you need to have Outlook File Template (.oft) to open via a click on a landing page, be aware that .oft is not part of the default mime types and it has to be manually added. If you try to open an OFT link with default settings, you will be … [Continue reading]
If you analyze a classic ASP or ASP.NET web application using YSlow, you'll notice that more often than not (if not always), you'll get an F grade on the Configure entity tags (ETags).In general, you can ignore this if you're using IIS 7 or … [Continue reading]
If you happen to forget your sa password, you can still recover it as long as you have access to the server. Here are the steps to do it.StepsLaunch Sql Configuration Manager under Configuration Tools folder.Look for your SQL Server … [Continue reading]
The internal SMTP server feature is deprecated but not removed on , so when moving legacy applications from an older server, you can still install the internal SMTP under IIS 6 on to avoid using a separate Exchange Server. Here are the steps to … [Continue reading]