Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Servant Leadership Training Course

I've just finished The Servant Leadership Training Course on CD.

The Servant Leadership Training Course

There isn't anything new in this book and if you've read and understood the other popular books in this area then this will just be a repeat.

However, having this information repeated to you on a regular basis is very useful. And having it repeated from a different point of view is even more useful. For that reason I enjoyed it. The first quarter of the book was a bit redundant but the rest was good.

I didn't care much for the author's condescending tone and attitude but if you look past that you'll see that the material he's presenting is of value.

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Install an HttpModule in IIS 7.5 on Server 2008 R2

Mostly for my own notes for when I next need to do this again. Assumes that the HttpModule has already been compiled and that you have the DLL.

Copy the DLL to the server and put in any folder.

Install the module into the GAC

  1. Right click on a command window and select "Run as administrator"
  2. At the command prompt type "explorer c:\windows\assembly" without the quotes.
  3. Find the folder that you copied the DLL to and while holding down the control key right click this folder and select "Open in a new window".
  4. Drag the HttpModule DLL from the new window and drop it into the c:\windows\assembly window.
  5. The HttpModule is now installed in the GAC.

Add the module to IIS 7.5

(This assumes a .NET 2.0 module (there's a good reason why it's .NET 2.0 and not 4))

  1. Open IIS and navigate to root. This is usually the machine name and adding the module here will ensure that it operates on all websites.
  2. In the Features View find the IIS section and double click on Modules.
  3. Click "Add Managed Module"
  4. In the Name field put any name you want.
  5. In the Type dropdown you should find the module that you added to the GAC above. Select this.
  6. Leave the "Invoke only for requests to ASP.NET applications or managed handlers" unchecked.
  7. Click OK and you're done.

This HttpModule will now execute against every request on all web sites.