The version of Microsoft's web server that comes with Server 2012 and Windows 8. It adds support for multiple SSL-certs for a single IP (SNI), web sockets, Application Initialization.
Questions tagged [iis-8]
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How to benchmark SSL performance IIS
We are moving from Windows 2003 IIS 6 to Windows 2012 IIS 8. When moving over to the 2012 we have seen a slow down of the website of at least 10 times and sometimes more under load.
Initial testing shows that encrypted pages are slower, however…

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'Cannot get iis pickup directory' in Windows Server 2012
Our system moved from Windows Server 2003(Enterprise SP2) & IIS 6.
And new system is Windows Server 2012(Standard) and IIS 6(for smtp mail) & 8.
I copied all of web application files and IIS settings, another function is ok but..
email system is…

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IIS App Pool Idle Time-out Action .NET Framework 4.5.1
I recently installed the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM on a Windows Server 2012 Standard machine running IIS 8.0. There is a new option to suspend application pools when they time out instead of killing off the worker process call "Idle Time-out Action".…

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How to record IIS 8 client authentication errors in Windows Events?
We have an internal web application hosted on IIS 8 that exposes some REST services through HTTPS. Since it's accessed by other applications, we require client certificates. We are getting some authentication failures due to missing or bad client…

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IIS 8, webdav and windows file shares
We are looking to use a webdav server to publish some internal file shares and would like to use the established security on these shares for publishing. The environment is Win 2012/iis8
I've read and tried to follow directions for IIS7 and 7.5 but…

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HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable
I'm struggling to setup the environment in IIS8, I searched a lot but couldn't find a right solution.
I checked the error logs, but no idea.
C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR
2013-10-09 09:28:39 192.168.43.205 60172 192.168.43.205 80…

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unable to setup net.tcp bindings for wcf application running on IIS
I am trying to set up NET.TCP bindings for a WCF application deployed on IIS. I have already added net.tcp to Enabled Protocols of application, but when I am trying to add net.tcp binding, its throwing the error shown below:
I have also activated…

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Azure IAAS Websites and session affinity
What is the best way to handle session affinity (sticky session) with Azure IaaS VMs? We have 2 load balanced web servers. Right now they are setup and use the Azure Round Robin approach. The issue is we need to setup session affinity. It seems we…

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Browsing web site from own server does not work - but does externally
I have a brand new install of Windows Server 2012 with IIS 8 on a colocated box. I moved the InetPub folder to D:\ using the script here.
I set a domain to point to the server.
I added a new website with the machine's IP address and the domain as…

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Windows XP / Server 2012 HTTPS decryption issues
I have an issue with an application I've been developing that makes web requests over SSL to a local server VM with IIS 8 installed (Windows Server 2012).
So far all the other requests in the application are working apart from one on an XP VM.
It's…

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Remote IIS administation options missing in Windows 8
I would like to remotely administer IIS on a couple of test servers from my Windows 8 Professional machine. However, the options to do so seem to be missing from IIS Manager.
My expectation is that there should be a few extra buttons in the area…

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IIS8 allow access to all subdirectories
How can I allow access to all subdirectories using web.config? I know how to allow access per-directory but not to all child directories at once.

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IIS Log field time-taken logs include network time, how to get time without network time?
According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944884 IIS 6 and IIS 7 logs include network time unless response is smaller than 2 kb, does this changed on IIS 8, could not find relevant information.
If not, is there any other way to log time without…

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Application Request Routing on a hyper-v guest intermittently stops
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I'm having a weird problem configuring ARR on a hyper-v guest.
I can load my DotNetNuke/ASPx sites normally, but after some time of inactivity, the pages are not loaded anymore.
It only comes back to work after I visit a default…

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"Save configuration to file" IIS 8
I am looking for the "Save configuration to file" function as in IIS 6.0 but in IIS 8.0?
Tried "Export Server Package" but this failed?
How do you do this? Apologies but I'm a dev really, I'm configuring a new dev machine.

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