By Tom Hundley on 6/15/2008 12:26 AM

Remote testing of web services via HTTP was diabled by default after .Net 1.0, so now you can only invoke test methods with your browser on the server. 

Should you ever find the need to enable it again, add the following to the system.Web section of your web.config:

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By Thomas Hundley on 6/14/2008 8:48 PM

 

I only need to do this every so often, but I always forget how to and end up looking it up.  Thus, I'm posting it here for reference.

 

 

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By Thomas Hundley on 6/14/2008 8:39 PM

Here is a script to rebuild all of your indexes on your database.  I find that indexes are often ignored once an application moves to production.  It's a good idea to evaluate your usage patterns and setup automated maintenance jobs to proactively rebuild indexes before fragmentation has a chance to adversely effect performance.  This is especialy important if you are using guids as primary keys and don't move the clustered index to a more logically sequential column. 

 

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By Tom Hundley on 4/8/2008 10:46 AM

I changed the IIS SSL bindings to bind the cert to one specific IP address
instead of the default "all unassigned". I changed this back and everything
works great. I can't imagine this is by design- this has to be a bug!  MS?

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By Tom Hundley on 3/14/2008 1:21 PM

 Problem: IIS 6.0 / Server 2003 Event Log Entry: "Unable to get the private bytes memory limit for the W3WP process. The ASP.NET cache will be unable to limit its memory use, which may lead to a process restart. Error 0x80070005". 

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By Tom Hundley on 3/4/2008 3:15 PM

This is just bad bad bad ju ju! 

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By Tom Hundley on 2/10/2008 11:59 AM

Seven servers, one network inlcuding firewall / vpn, dns, dhcp, active directory, sql, iis: four hours.

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By Tom Hundley on 2/10/2008 11:39 AM

 Initial Reviews:  Two Thumbs Up for Windows Server 2008!!!

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By Tom Hundley on 2/10/2008 11:34 AM

So here are the facts about ISA Server 2006 and Windows Server 2008.  The are not compatible.  ISA 2006 will not even start the installation process on x64 Server 2008.  It will start on x86, but you can only install the ISA management tools.  You cannot install the firewall services.  I read a blog on Microsoft stating that the new version of ISA will only run on x64, but I haven't bothered to look into when that is coming out or what it will be called.  Until then, Server 2003 R2 for ISA 2006 is fine!

Tom Hundley
Elegant Software Solutions

By Tom Hundley on 2/5/2008 8:08 PM

Wow.  I guess Dell really does have some great sales.  I'm not much of a "sales" guy when it comes to shopping, but last month I bought 5 servers 64bit (Poweredge T105) for $499 each before tax.  The exact same builds are now $1496 before tax.  I guess some sales truly are worth looking out for.  Grr, I just wish I had bought 5 more!!!! 

Tom Hundley
Elegant Software Solutions