Rakki Muthukumar
my journey with microsoft technologies - IIS/ASP.NET/AJAX/C#/Javascript/IE
Azure Powershell examples – Create VM with VNet, custom VHD name
Microsoft Azure Portal gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of creating the VMs, to choose the...
Date: 10/06/2014
Azure xplat CLI tool 0.8.10 released with Reserved IP features
Today, a new version (0.8.10) of the Azure CLI xplat tools is released, and you can download it from...
Date: 10/03/2014
Running LogParser directly on Azure Websites console
I saw some extra traffic on my website last week, and as an old school IIS guy I wanted to run Log...
Date: 07/27/2014
Learning Azure Service Management REST API through Powershell, and Azure CLI tools
Azure Service Management REST API is used by all the public tools provided by Microsoft to manage...
Date: 07/15/2014
Unable to setup AutoScale for Virtual Machines from the Azure Management Portal
I just posted a new blog in my new team’s MSDN blog. Read the complete post here. You can set up...
Date: 07/14/2014
Stay updated on Microsoft Azure - blogs, service status, news
Everyone wants to know what’s happening on their area of interest. Being up to date is a necessity...
Date: 06/19/2014
What are your options to host your web application with Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is growing. All it’s services are getting huge adoption. Currently, there are 3...
Date: 06/06/2014
Auto Install IIS in the Microsoft Azure VM that you are creating
The world is moving fast, actually faster! You too want to do things faster, right? Why wait until...
Date: 05/22/2014
Azure Websites SCM site updated to have Single Sign-on
If you haven’t noticed, your Azure Website’s SCM site has been updated to work with Azure Single...
Date: 05/21/2014
Azure Websites – Viewing Site Configuration files from Kudu
Azure Websites Paas offering from Microsoft gives you more power to you. You could change a few...
Date: 04/09/2014
Kudu for Azure Websites updated with ‘Process Explorer’ tab
I’m sure everyone appreciates the pace in which Azure Websites team releasing cool features. Azure...
Date: 04/04/2014
WAWS - WebJob to upload FREB files to Azure Storage using the WebJobs SDK
After writing my earlier post on creating a simple WebJob to upload the Failed Request Tracing logs...
Date: 02/17/2014
Windows Azure Websites - WebJob to upload FREB logs to Azure Blob Storage
Currently in Windows Azure Web sites, there is an option to store your website logs to Azure Blob...
Date: 02/14/2014
Do you know swapping between a staging environment, and the production environment is a push of a button, in Windows Azure Websites?
Yes, you are reading it right. It is true. It’s just a matter of one click to promote your staging...
Date: 02/08/2014
Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) - Collecting dumps of the worker process (w3wp.exe) automatically whenever a request takes a long time
Websites being slow is perhaps the most common problem every website administrator, and developers...
Date: 01/06/2014
Quick ways to edit your files hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS), other than re-deploying
Editing a small piece of code, or change in configuration file is perhaps the most common thing for...
Date: 01/03/2014
Removing the X-Powered-By response header from Windows Azure Web Sites
People do want to remove this header as a part of some of their security audit that claims to know...
Date: 01/02/2014
Tweaking the queueLength for PHP handler - Windows Azure Web Sites
Users moving to Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) is increasing day by day. Happy to see many of the...
Date: 01/02/2014
Editing Windows Azure Web Sites online with the new shiny Monaco
Yeah, this is one feature everyone wanted for a long time. An online editing option, with all (okay,...
Date: 11/18/2013
FREBViewer – yet another FREB files viewer
I was searching for a FREB files viewer tool, and have done my own since the existing ones...
Date: 09/28/2011
DropDownList (html select) vertical scrollbar – number of items
The DropDownList of ASP.NET gets rendered as html <select>, and everyone knows this. You click...
Date: 05/02/2011
ASP.NET - Form tag doesn’t have “name” attribute - xhtmlConformance
I was recently working on an issue that one of my customers was facing on his website. He had an...
Date: 04/12/2011
MSDEPLOY – Can I use it to migrate my IIS6 to another IIS6? oh yes!
I was working with one of our partner who want to migrate 30+ sites from an existing IIS6 server, to...
Date: 03/02/2010
IIS7 - How to configure a custom ISAPI Extension?
This is often a question that has been asked a lot of times, and I couldn’t find an article which...
Date: 02/15/2010
Getting System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception while querying SCM from ASP.NET
Symptoms Getting “System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied” on an ASP.NET website....
Date: 01/26/2010
Fiddler – How to mimic a specific browser version request?
Fiddler tool doesn’t need any introduction, it is a great tool to debug a lot of client side issues...
Date: 11/19/2009
Blog update
You might wonder why a big silence on this blog, I must admit that I was too busy to blog. Now, also...
Date: 11/19/2009
IIS – Getting “Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool DefaultAppPool” – File Version Mismatch
Today, I was working with a customer of mine who had some problems in configuring a Virus...
Date: 08/07/2009
IIS7 – Configure FREB rule to collect a dump
I wrote a post of my team blog where I explained how to configure FREB rule to collect dump when...
Date: 08/04/2009
IIS7 – To be noted while using Expression Encoder to upload large files to IIS server
Internet is full of videos, and you have a power packed set of tools for IIS to make media streaming...
Date: 07/29/2009
IIS7 – Improving ASP.NET performance (concurrent requests) while on Integrated Mode
If you were a ASP.NET 1.1 developer, and faced some performance problems, I’m sure you would have...
Date: 07/08/2009
IIS7 – Configuring iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication using appcmd
As you know there is no UI to configure iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication in IIS7, it takes...
Date: 07/08/2009
FREB – Troubleshooting a simple error message
I just wrote a blog post on my team blog on using FREB to troubleshoot a simple error message. I’ve...
Date: 06/12/2009
URLScan – rejecting the request depending on the User-Agent string
I just learned this now :-) You can now use the URLScan 3.1 with your own custom rules, and it would...
Date: 06/12/2009
IIS7 – Improved Backup Restore Tool, and a UI Module
NOTE : Before you even read about this module, I want to mention that I do not work for IIS product...
Date: 06/08/2009
IIS7 - Getting HTTP 500.19 while accessing the website
I recently worked with one of my customer who was getting “HTTP 500.19” error while browsing the...
Date: 03/19/2009
IIS7 Tweet #2: Modifying an existing binding for the website
appcmd.exe set config -section:system.applicationHost/sites /[name='Default Web...
Date: 03/17/2009
IIS7 Tweet #1 : Setting UploadReadAheadSize
appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/serverRuntime...
Date: 03/17/2009
ASP.NET - AJAX functionality not working on the page | Getting ‘Sys’ is undefined
When the ASP.NET AJAX Functionality is not working on a web page, it is usually due to the fact that...
Date: 02/26/2009
VS2008 - Getting "Creating project 'projectname'... project creation failed"
Symptom Cannot create a simple web application or a windows application project with Visual Studio...
Date: 02/24/2009
IIS7 – Search the complete IIS configuration store – in which web.config is your attribute configured
As you know IIS 7.0 configuration system is huge, broad, or whatever you feel like calling it. It no...
Date: 02/11/2009
IIS7 – Viewing ISAPI Filters that are loaded inside the worker process
In IIS6 manager, you see a green arrow icon and a red icon against the ISAPI Filter’s list to...
Date: 01/07/2009
ADSUTIL.vbs – Copying a website
Copying a website (to another exact copy) Here is the command to copy a website(run from a cmd...
Date: 11/20/2008
LogParser – Useful Logparser scripts
Logparser is a powerful utility which comes handy for me whenever I’m helping my customers facing a...
Date: 11/18/2008