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IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.

IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.

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How to assign permissions to ApplicationPoolIdentity account

In IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008, application pools can be run as the "ApplicationPoolIdentity" account instead of the NetworkService account. How do I assign permissions to this "ApplicationPoolIdentity" account. It does not appear as a local user…
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What should I do to make sure that IIS does not recycle my application?

I have a WCF service app hosted in IIS. On startup, it goes and fetches a really expensive (in terms of time and cpu) resource to use as local cache. Unfortunately, IIS seems to recycle the process on a fairly regular basis. So I am trying to…
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Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in IIS 7

What is the best way to turn on HTTP Strict Transport Security on an IIS 7 web server? Can I just through the GUI and add the proper HTTP response header or should I be using appcmd and if so what switches?
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IIS complains about a locked section - how can I find out where it's locked?

I have this section in my web.config:
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IIS7: can't set host name on site with SSL cert and port 443

Consider a Win 2008 SP2 machine with IIS7. The task is to apply a certificate and host name to the one and only Site on this machine. The site's host headers need to be abc.123.example.com The first step was installing the .pfx to the Personal…
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Removing phantom applications from Application Pools in IIS7

I have an application in one of my application pools that has a virtual path of /Site/login.aspx. I want to remove it but it no longer exists on my computer and it's causing me issues setting up AppFabric. I understand that you can remove these…
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IIS6 vs. IIS7 and IIS7.5: handling URLs with plus sign (+) in base (not querystring)

For any URL with a plus sign (+) in the base URL (not the querystring), IIS7 and IIS7.5 (Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2) do not appear to forward the URL to the default handler on an ASP.NET application. I started noticing the issue with a custom…
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Directly editing IIS 7 applicationHost.config configuration file

I know that IIS 7+ uses XML config files instead of the metabase. I also know that if I edit a web.config file for a given site, IIS automagically detects the changes and implements any corresponding config changes. However, does this also apply to…
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IIS Manager - Connect to Another Server (Win7 to Win2008 server)

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. If I open up IIS Manager, I see a list of "connections" on the left hand side. In previous versions, I would be able to select an option to "connect to another server" or "connect to another machine", but there is…
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Configure IIS 7.0 to download APK

I would like to know how to configure IIS 7.0 to allow the download of APK files? I found an article which tells me to add a new MIME type: File Name Extension: .apk MIME Type: application/vnd.android.package-archive Because In IIS there needs to be…
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IIS7 What unit does time-taken have in a w3c-log?

I'm trying to analyze some IIS7 logs (W3C format) and am interesting in the time-taken field and its unit. According to Microsoft the unit is milliseconds. The length of time that the action took, in milliseconds. According to the w3c documentation…
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IIS 7 Still Serving old SSL Certificate

I installed a new SSL certificate into IIS7, removed the old certificate and setup the bindings for the new certificate - so https is now bound to the new certificate only. I restarted IIS7 (and the Windows 2008 Server itself) and checked the…
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Service WAS was not found on computer '.'

I am using Windows 7 Professional. When I am trying to start DefaultAppPool in IIS 7.0, I am getting error - Service WAS was not found on computer '.'. Is there any changes in setting need to be done?
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How to increase memory usage in MySQL Server to improve speed?

I have a Windows 2008 server with 8GB of RAM running IIS7 and MySQL. I've been tracking the memory, cpu and disk usage on the server and I found out that MySQL is using only 250MB of RAM, keeping the disks very busy, even though I have plenty of…
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Certificate does not have a name

I've installed an SSL certificate in IIS, however the 'Name' column is showing as blank even though I entered a friendly name. Is there any way to fix this?
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