Category Archives: IIS

Windows Installer hangs trying to determine available disk space

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Alex Shlega

This problem just happened to me while I was installing WebDAV on a little bit outdated Windows 2008 system. There turned out to be a helpful blog post already: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/harold/archive/2009/01/14/windows-installer-doesn-t-finish-determining-disk-space-requirements.aspx Anyway, it does help to run the installer with reduced … Continue reading →

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Using iisreset to restart IIS, and how that affects AVIcode monitoring

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Alex Shlega

For some reason, IISRESET is not as reliable as it should be. Being called without parameters, it is supposed to restart the whole stack of IIS processes. From time to time, however, that does not happen. I’ve seen at least … Continue reading →

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32 bit worker processes on IIS 64-bit

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Alex Shlega

What are the benefits of configuring IIS to use 32-bit worker processes? “learn.iis.net” gives somewhat vague statement on this subject: “One of the performance benefits of the x64 platform is that it increases virtual address space, making more memory available. We … Continue reading →

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