Here’s a tip for when you are troubleshooting web applications on an IIS server that I’ve found useful over time. When you access the web application from a client machine, the default Internet Explorer setting is designed to give the user friendly messages that really don’t give much detail. However if you turn off the Friendly messages then you get a whole lot more … [Read more...]
HTTP Error 404.2–Not Found when you access a website on an IIS 7 server
A customer of mine was doing an upgrade of one of their Tax applications recently. The new application needed .Net v4.0 framework to be installed. The client did everything the application vendor instructed them to do but could not make the application work. He asked me to take a “quick look” at it. I checked out the application vendors instruction first up … [Read more...]
Cleaning up WSUS Failed Upgrade on SBS 2008
My post yesterday was about an issue a friend had with their SBS 2008 server. Basically I was unsure as to how the suscomp.dll got removed from the server at all and why it totally broke all their websites on their SBS 2008 server. It turns out that the system tried to install WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and as part of that process it removes WSUS 3.0 SP1 and the … [Read more...]
HTTP Error 500.19 on SBS 2008
Today I was investigating problems with a friends SBS 2008 server. It suddenly had decided to give a HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error to every single website on it including Remote Web Workplace, OWA and even Sharepoint was dead. Given that all these apps were dead, I even tried to access the iisstart.htm page that is installed by default on the default website – not … [Read more...]
How do I create new MIME types for IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I recently put a download of a CMD file on my website, but forgot to create the correct MIME type to allow it to be accessible. Without the correct MIME type, IIS 7.5 does not know how to handle the content of a specified extension and therefore will respond with a 404 error. Use this procedure to create additional MIME Types. Logon to your server using an … [Read more...]