While adding a new Data Source to a Sharepoint Site for SQL Reporting Services, I kept getting the following error: An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the report server is available and configured for SharePoint integrated mode. Ummm…. OK. It is configured for SharePoint integrated mode.  Quick Google search [...]

In a previous post, I talked about configuring compression in IIS 7 and realized I should also mention IIS 6.0 compression as there are quite a few IIS 6.0 servers out there.  In IIS 6.0, unlike 7, Compression is off by default and should (in most cases) be turned on. Unlike IIS 7 however, there [...]

I was checking whether or not one of my web servers was performing compression today due to some performance issues we were seeing, so I thought I would share what I found, which led me down the rabbit hole that follows…. If you want to increase the speed of your IIS Website, you may want [...]

Ok, I know its a little late but we finally got around to applying KB973917. Interestingly enough, this is a is a “non-security update” patch that implements “Extended Protection for Authentication” in IIS. However, KB973917 also has a tendency to break IIS resulting in failing application pools, and thus unavailable web sites. Monitoring of web [...]