Gotcha If you just want the solution skip to the “Understanding the problem” section. A pet peeve of mine that I have definitely mentioned before […]
IIS application pool exploit
What? That’s what I said too when I first discovered the exploit. I didn’t think it was so easily possible to extract usernames and passwords […]
Copy and zip up IIS Logs newer than a certain date
This script will actually work for anything of the form “Copy stuff from static location and zip it up using PowerShell”, however the focus for […]
Recycle Application Pool using WMI via Powershell
Introduction I handle the builds for a particular piece of software at my place of work. I am responsible for deploying any new versions of […]
Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. – Your Application + SSRS + Reports folder = obscure mess
Introduction Wow… another error message that tells you NOTHING! This error message reads: Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I need to […]
Visual Studio 2012 Crashes When Attaching to Process or When Opening Solution
This is a rant. For the solution skip to the next section So yeah… I don’t know about you all out there in dev land, […]
Setting Up WCF with Windows Authentication
Introduction Configuring WCF to do anything for the first time is very time consuming, frustrating and just generally a hassle. My coworker and I mucked […]
Work Around to Opening up a Local Folder from an HTML Link
Introduction (solution below) In general in web programming at one point you may need to or be asked to open up a local folder from […]
HTTP Error 503. The Service is unavailable.
This error reads: Service Unavailable – HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I’d like to open up by saying what we are all thinking […]
Worst Visual Studio 2010 Bug I Have Ever Seen
The Background This bug was so bad I had to post about it. This is by far the WORST Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010, VS) bug […]