Managing several IIS servers can be overwhelming if you have to RDP to each server to perform your tasks. Unfortunately, there are many IT professionals still doing it the hard way by not taking advantage of this capability to manage IIS servers from their workstations. Using IIS Manager for Remote Administration, you can manage remote IIS with the same experience as if you're logged into the … [Read more...]
How to Install IIS Management Console on Windows
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 expand … [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 Fix Could Not Create a Disk Cache Sub-Directory for the Application Pool on IIS
During one of the upgrade projects from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 32-bit, the following error occurs: This happened soon after the Windows Server 2003 was in-place upgraded to Windows Server 2008. One the problems here is after the upgrade, the default ASP Compiled Templates folder got moved but the application config is still pointing to the old path. The second … [Read more...]