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Missing SMTP Virtual Server in Windows 2003

Sometimes the SMTP Virtual Server will disappear in the IIS Manager on Windows 2003, especially if you”ve done online casino some installing/uninstalling/reinstalling of IIS, SMTP, etc. Until it”s fixed in […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- October 13, 2004
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Fast Flash applications for the web

Laszlo appears to be a free, open-source tool for quickly building rich web applications. It takes XML-based source files and generates Flash applications. Sounds very similar to Macromedia’s own Flex, […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- October 8, 2004
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Configure SMTP relaying with IIS 6 / Windows 2003

I’ve spoken with other developers about how to use the SMTP service built into Windows 2003 as an outbound SMTP relay. For example, say you have a small web site […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- October 7, 2004
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CPU Monitoring and Throttling in IIS 6

You can enable some basic CPU monitoring in IIS, but the downside is you have very few options if a given site takes up too much CPU. You can either […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- October 7, 2004
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System.OutOfMemoryException with ASP.NET on a high-ram machine

If you have a machine with 4gb of ram, you may still see out of memory errors coming from ASP.NET. It seems impossible, since you have so much memory, yet […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- September 24, 2004
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Case sensitive string comparison in SQL Server

Normally SQL Server is installed to be case insensitive, yet you need to perform a case sensitive search. Thus when trying to do a normal string comparison you run into […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- September 23, 2004
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One Late Night With Perl (aka search and replace on big large huge files)

One Late Night With Perl: A Troubleshooting Story A few weeks ago we needed to do a search and replace on a few hundred IIS web log files. Each file […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- September 17, 2004