Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit

Summary

When your IIS 7.0 environment encounters problems, or when you suspect there might be some problem, you can rely on tools that ship with IIS 7.0 to track and diagnose the symptoms. FRT is your first line of defense for identifying a problem and zeroing in on the likely culprit. However, you will need to rely on a small host of tools to troubleshoot errors that might involve such disparate issues as stopped services, network problems, server configuration errors, authentication and authorization failures, problems with firewall settings, faulty application code, or even errors in custom modules.

Using a few simple steps to diagnose the problem, you can readily resolve some of the most commonly encountered problems in an IIS 7.0 environment. ...