Here are the steps to install IIS Management Console as a prerequisite to manage IIS servers remotely. The examples are shown using . Steps Make sure you don't have any RDP sessions opened during installation otherwise you will see an error. Right-click the Windows Start Button, and click on Control Panel. Click on Programs. Click on Turn Windows features on or off. Find and … [Read more...]
How to Cache Specific Static Files and Directories on IIS
As part of IIS performance tuning to improve a web page load speed, in general you want to enable browser caching by double-clicking on HTTP Response Headers in IIS Manager, click on Set Common Headers and check the Expire Web content:, then set the After: with an x number of days. Often times though, you may want to be more granular in IIS static content caching for different type of … [Read more...]
How to Fix Invalid SendUsing Configuration using CDO
When you use CDOsys to send email from a classic ASP, you might see an error message below and if you look at the line error, it's always on the message.Send: Several posts would suggest that you put the SMTP server in the code. But when you already have an SMTP server setup on IIS 6.0, here's a couple things you might want to check as well: Check if the Application Pool is at least … [Read more...]
How to Manage IIS Servers Remotely with WMSVC
One of the better ways of managing IIS is by doing it remotely from your local computer instead of logging in to the server itself. The Web Management Service (WMSVC) in IIS allows a remote connection into a Windows Server 2012 R2 by using the IIS Manager GUI. This is a much lighter connection compared to do an RDP connection to the server. Here are the steps we need to do before we can use our … [Read more...]
Moving Default SMTP Folders to a Different Drive on Windows Server
As part of Windows Server migration project to Windows Server 2012 R2, for the reason of practicality, sometimes a deprecated internal SMTP server is still required. When you enabled Windows SMTP Virtual Server, the default location is always going to be in C:\inetpub\mailroot and often times for easier maintenance and separation of OS vs. application, it's probably better to move them to a … [Read more...]