IIS Tools that you should have...

Here is a list of IIS tools I've used in the past and their respective links.  Please note that all of these tools are FREE and widely used in the industry.

 

IIS Web Deploy 2.0

http://www.iis.net/download/WebDeploy

 

 

IIS 6.0 Resource Kit (many tools included here – most helpful are probably IIS 6.0 Migration Tool and the IIS Metabase Explorer)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&displaylang=en

 

 

IIS Diagnostics Kit – IIS Diag

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9bfa49bc-376b-4a54-95aa-73c9156706e7

 

This includes a number of tools which help diagnose various types of problems with IIS setup and configuration:

• AuthDiag - authentication and ACL problems
• SSL Diag - SSL-related problems
• SMTP Diag - smtp-related issues
• Log Parser - allows for easy reading of IIS log files
• Debug Diag - allows you to create memory dumps manually or automatically when IIS hangs.  It also can run a memory ananlysis from the memory dump captured!
• and others...

Event Log Explorer - allows you to create custom queries and filters against anything in the Event Viewer – very cool!

http://www.eventlogxp.com/

And a whole list of the other great tools from the IIS Team at Microsoft:

http://www.iis.net/download/All

 

 

Tools for Assisting with Collection and Analyzing of Data for Problem Diagnosis

I was going through my Google Bookmarks and found a bunch of tools that are extremely helpful in diagnosing  many problems that occur on a web/app server and and interpreting the data collected. I’ve used all of them; they are all free and well known and used within the Community.  By no means is this an exhaustive list of all of the Tools and Add-Ins that I use - I'll get around to posting those someday : )

I’d start with the Data Collector. You can collect everything with Data Collector and then use the Log Parser and Visual Log Parser to help aggregate the data and even run queries against it. You may already know about some of these – but for those you haven’t seen, you should take a look!

Data Collector (supports IIS6 & IIS7, and can pull most other logs from any server):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carloc/archive/2010/02/01/idevdatacollector.aspx

Log Parser 2.2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en

Visual Log Parser:
http://visuallogparser.codeplex.com/

Log File Analysis:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2007/06/21/powerful-log-file-analysis-for-everyone-releasing-textanalysistool-net.aspx

Event Log Explorer:
http://www.eventlogxp.com/

IIS Log Analyzer (does graphs and reports):
http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1864

IIS Diagnostics Toolkit (a suite of tools diagnosing Authentication, Authorization, SSL, Crash/Hang, etc.):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9bfa49bc-376b-4a54-95aa-73c9156706e7

and then of course the "big daddy" bunch of them all - Debugging Tools for Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

I hope you find these useful : )