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IIS uses bindings to determine where to redirect requests. These bindings can be secured (https – mostly on port 443) or unsecured (http – mostly on 80).
In a case I worked on, I came across to this error while trying to add an https binding:&nb… Continue reading The request is not supported (0x80070032)
MachineKeys folder stores certificate keys that are used by IIS. This folder my fill up with thousands of files in a short time due to a permission or application code related issue.
The permanent solution would be correcting permissions or… Continue reading MachineKeys folder fills up quickly
IIS comes with default error pages. In order to help troubleshooting issues, these error pages may provide detailed information about the application and server. Therefore, some penetration testing tools may flag this situation as a vulnerability. An e… Continue reading Custom Error Page vulnerability
Web.config file includes of crucial information for your website to work such as server and application specific settings. Depending on your website and environment, this file can grow quickly. IIS refuses to read it if it exceeds a threshold. This che… Continue reading Web.config file maximum size and count
If you are using AppDynamics 4.5.17 or a lower version and the application is displaying “BadImageFormatException: Bad method token” error, please update your AppDynamics. There is a known issue with 4.5.17 and lower versions.
This issue… Continue reading Bad method token error
The SqlClient team is moving forward with continuous updates and improvements to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two preview releases in between. This cadence should provid… Continue reading Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1 Preview 1
The database level health detection failover option introduced on this article
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/sql-server-always-on-database-health-detection-failover-option?view=sql-server-ver15
… Continue reading How to configure the WSFC AG failover policy when the database level health detection enabled?
When opening SSIS package, SSDT loads the package, validates it and shows you the validation results by default. To accelerate the opening of SSIS package, we enable you to skip package validation when opening the package and validate it when you … Continue reading Accelerate the opening of SSIS package in SSDT