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 days. By enabling this feature, IIS basically tells the browser to cache all static contents from the web server to the browser so on subsequent … [Read more...]
How to Serve Outlook File Type on IIS
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 getting a 404 error. You can add the Mime Type via IIS Manager or directly editing the web.config file in root directory. Adding MIME Type from … [Read more...]
How to Disable ETag Header on IIS 8.5 Web Application
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 later as it's not affecting much of IIS performance tuning. However, if you're nitpicky about the test result, this can be fixed easily. The … [Read more...]
How to Install SMTP Server on Windows Server 2012 R2
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 install it. Steps Launch Server Manager. On the Dashboard, click Add roles and features on the right pane. Click Next > button to go to … [Read more...]
How to Use CDONTS.DLL on Windows Server 2012 R2
With Microsoft ending the support on Windows 2003, many classic ASP applications that use cdonts.dll to send automatic emails (cdonts.newmail) still need to be migrated to the newer server (Windows Server 2012 R2). One way you can tell an application is using it is when you encounter the following error message on your browser. CDONTS was already deprecated since Window 2000 and completely … [Read more...]