Working With WordPress and Windows IIS

I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite

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Quick Tip: WordPress on 1and1.com

I recently finished up a custom WordPress project for a client hosted at 1and1.com. Now, 1&1 is a pretty major hosting company, but this is the first time I’ve ever deployed WordPress there so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

Initially, everything seemed just fine — until the first WP minor upgrade was released. The

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Author Author! Customize the MMC

Here’s a nifty little tip for the Windows server admins that I picked up this week.

I find the services app annoying. By default it always opens in “Extended” view which (imho) just wastes space right in the middle of the app. First thing I do after starting it is click “Standard” to get to the

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Quick Process Monitor Tip

Back in the olden days I used to use the Sysinternals tools Filemon and Regmon when diagnosing system issues. Those were replaced years ago by another Sysinternals tool: Process Monitor.

Process Monitor does it all. You can watch file, registry, processes – you name it. It shows what succeeds, what fails and every possible result in

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Win7 Wallpaper Slide Show and Dropbox

I used to love good desktop wallpaper images. However, for years I avoided using images for backgrounds because no matter how cool the image, I would inevitably get tired of it.

Windows 7 has rekindled my use of images with the built-in Desktop background slide show applet. I love this thing! And once I realized

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