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10 things to do with AppCmd.exe?

I'm taking requests for writing a new blog post. I'd like to know what 10 things people would like to know how to do with AppCmd.exe. You post your ideas via comment and I'll work on getting the top 10 put together. If you don't know what AppCmd is, check out this article on IIS.Net....

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2007
SHHHH its a secret

If you haven't checked out IIS 7.0 yet, do it. DO IT NOW I said!!! Stop fooling around and go download the June CTP of Server 2008 you'll be glad you did.

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2007
Setup Entourage 2004 to connect to Exchange 2007

About two weeks ago we migrated our mail from an external Exchange hosting company named MailStreet to our own internal Exchange 2007 server. Most of the migration went extremely smoothly, however our poor Creative team has had to use Outlook Web Access (OWA) the entire time because Entourage 2004 wasn't...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-06-2007
Add Appcmd.exe to the Path on Windows Server 2008

A couple of days ago I needed to set my instance of Windows Server 2008 up so that appcmd.exe worked without having to be in the %system%\system32\inetsrv folder. Well as you know there two ways to do this, move the exe to another folder that is in the path, or add the inetsvr folder to the path. I chose...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2007
IIS 6.0 website update script using Adsutil.vbs

The previous script I put up was great if you're running IIS 7.0, but there aren't too many people out there running it. I've done the same thing for IIS 6.0 and I'm including it here. The only change is that rather than using AppCmd.exe like you would in IIS 7.0 we use adsutil.vbs. I've...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2007
Use AppCmd to create update script for IIS websites

Here at Telligent when we update an existing website our normal procedure is to make an XCopy of the current web folder, apply the updates and then point IIS at the new folder. This gives us a couple of advantages. The first advantage being that we always have a backup that we can fail back to if there...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2007
ASPNET_RegIIS failed (how to correct)

WOW, it has been a while since I had something to blog about. The last week or so has been very busy, but filled with the normal everyday happenings. Nothing to really pique my noggin and necessitate me to dig in to find an answer to what's going on. But today I got something so I thought I would...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2007
Setup SQL2005 connection using secondary network

On Friday I had an opportunity to setup a web application connecting a front end IIS server to a backend SQL 2005 server using two separate networks. I addition to connecting via a dedicated secondary network I was also connecting to a second instance of SQL 2005 on the server. The first network is the...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-05-2007
Integrated Authentication fails on localhost for IIS6 and IIS5.1

This has been plaguing me for a while, but it hasn't ever been a show stopper until this past week. I have a site that uses Integrated Windows Authentication and it works just fine remotely, however if I try to hit the site locally the login always fails. When I look in the Event Viewer Security...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-28-2007
IIS6 redirection wildcards

Tonight I was asked to "not redirect" one folder on an entire site that is being redirected. Initially I was really scratching my head on this one. I tried making the folder its own app and pointing it at the orginal folder, but this didn't work. IIS kept overwriting my changes. Eventually...

Posted to Rob Baugh (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-24-2007

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