IIS 6 Fix for UrlRewriter.Net

Make sure you add a Wildcard application maps entry under Application Configuration for UrlRewriter.Net to work without file extensions, e.g. http://localhost/show/users.

MSDTC Not Installed on New Dell Computers

I had this issue when I ran IIS for the first time:

The server failed to load application ‘/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT’. The error was ‘Class not registered’.
The problem was Dell did not install the MSDTC, which is the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and I found the solution at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=881749&SiteID=1.
Basically here are the steps that I took to [...]

inetmgr and iisreset

Internet Information Services or IIS is Microsoft’s web server application. It is based on Windows NT Server, and it supports the World Wide Web, FTP, and gopher, a menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.
Two tricks that I use most often with IIS are to open and reset [...]