Awesome responses guys. I had a funeral to attend to so this morning was my first chance to read through this stuff. Will check some of the links and see what I can get going.
I really appreciate you all and if credit is due, I am giving it ahead of time because I will forget later. Thanks again. David From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Posted At: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:13 PM Posted To: itli...@imcu.com Conversation: MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Subject: Re: MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Don't make me pull out my <joke> tags! On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: Not sure if you're j/king re Hanselman. He definitely works for MS - has a fairly senior role in the Web Tools and Platform team Cheers Ken From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 1 March 2013 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS tools and resource communications - was: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool I've known about it for years and have mentioned it a time or two on this list. :) I worked with some of the MS folks on some stuff they sponsored for in the Open Source community and they just cannot get credit for the stuff they do without angry people and rioters showing up to burn the place down. Of course for a while I heavily supported a web developer community (Drupal) so was aware of a lot of web focused tools. It was also mentioned in various podcasts and videos are part of an overall tool set from MS. It was more mentioned when the Firebug tool came out years ago. However when that happened all the Firebug advocates could say was 'copy' or well but I don't use IE or something else and promptly dismiss it. Some random links regarding it just cause: :) TechNet http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg589507(v=vs.85).aspx Scott Hanselman - I think he has something to do with MS, not sure... small obscure role maybe. I think he posts random stuff. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheInternetIsNotABlackBoxLookInside.aspx On the IE8 announcement page there is a mention of it. (Not digging up IE9 :) http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/tools-ie.aspx?templang=fr-ch ----- MS just can't get buzz on some things when every time they try the Internets jump on and devolve it into a giant bonfire of a comment fest. It doesn't help that they are so large and have so many different voices and outlets. They have been doing much better in the last few years trying to build communities around interests and specialties and MVPs but they are so large it's challenging and often from our perspective there are missteps and so much over all noise that really cool or neat things get lost or missed. So, in the interests of communications, if you weren't aware here are some additional sources of information. :) TechNet wiki is a nice place depending on the technology you support lots of additional content there and the ability to add to it yourself and edit. Channel9 has tons of awesome resources and shows such as Defrag Tools, Various Jump Start series, TechEd videos, BUILD conference videos. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ - TechNet Wiki http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools Each Defrag Tools show focuses on a specific tool http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun - tons of shows and JumpStart series and random projects http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Series http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Shows http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd http://channel9.msdn.com/Browse/Events?sort=recent I have a bunch of links to 'training type' video's, test lab guides, virtual labs and resources linked here as well : http://www.blkmtn.org/Microsoft_Private_Cloud_Training-Videos Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: I'm quite impressed with that too. Shows how good MS are at publicizing good features they develop (i.e. not at all) Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY ________________________________ From: "Maglinger, Paul" <pmaglin...@scvl.com <mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:36:10 +0000 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool Damn. You had to show me that. Now I can't bad mouth IE quite as much as I used to. From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com <mailto:sep...@gmail.com> ] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool For basic testing from a client machine you can also use F12 in IE. Go to Network, Start Capture Type in the URL Click around, do stuff. Stop Capture. It will at least get you response request information, various calls etc. and it's most likely on the client system already. That said, play around with the other tools, this just happens to already be there. :) On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ziots, Edward <ezi...@lifespan.org <mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org> > wrote: Fiddler can tell you some of the same information but httpwatch is a good tool to troubleshoot client side issues when looking at web information. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org <mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org> This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com <mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com> ] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool That's pretty cool. I'm going to try that. Kurt On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Kevin Lundy <klu...@gmail.com <mailto:klu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think you are looking for something like http watch > > http://www.httpwatch.com/ <http://www.httpwatch.com/> > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, itli...@imcu.com <mailto:itli...@imcu.com> <itli...@imcu.com <mailto:itli...@imcu.com> > > wrote: >> >> That is basically it. The application developer says that brute >> force testing on my server shows response time for 1000 pages on 10 >> accounts concurrently have an average 1.55 second response with is >> below their required 2.00 response. But the users are showing as >> much as 5 minutes from Get to Post. On their workstation on a 10/100 >> switch. No WAN traffic all on the same LAN and same SWITCH for 20 of >> the 23 users. So I am game for anything I can do to show the >> developer there are issues my users can not live with. >> >> But for now I am limited to their tools and their results. >> >> Thanks for all the help. >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com <mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com> ] Posted At: >> Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:01 PM >> >> >> Posted To: itli...@imcu.com <mailto:itli...@imcu.com> >> Conversation: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool >> Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool >> >> >> >> The best way you are going to get a true picture of this if is you >> run the tool on the client machine, or at the client's location. Not >> on the server. >> >> >> >> On the server you can look at the Time-Taken field in the IIS logs to >> get some idea of how long it takes IIS to put the page onto the wire. >> That's not the same as the client actually receiving the packet, and >> doesn't take into account any proxies, accelerators, caches etc. >> between the server and the client. >> >> >> >> Anyway, if you have some more requirements, then perhaps we can help >> with your searching. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Ken >> >> >> >> From: itli...@imcu.com <mailto:itli...@imcu.com> [mailto:itli...@imcu.com <mailto:itli...@imcu.com> ] >> Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013 7:56 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: IIS reporting/monitoring free tool >> >> >> >> Solarwinds, didn't give me the results I wanted, I need to know how >> long each page is taken to return to the client workstations for a >> particular app. >> >> Couldn't get AWSTATS to even give me one result.(Had it working on >> another server last year but can not get this one to configure >> properly.) >> >> IIS reporter but it is only giving me active connections to IIS not >> per page or duration times? >> >> I saw Beta 7.0 had a IIS reporting tool but dev decided it wasn't >> need for admin tools of IIS 7.5??? >> >> Seems like that would be a good thing, unless they were borrowing >> someones code to get their results??? >> >> Anyways, thought I would try here?? >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Andrew S. 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