IIS IWAM and IUSR have the wrong server-name after a rename of the server after VMWare/Ghosting. You want to re-create them with the new server-name because two computers would have the same IWAM and IUSR accounts.

Any discussion on the subject of PHP Version Compatability would be incomplete if no mention was made about older versions of PHP and the php.ini settings register_globals and register_long_arrays. These two settings alone seem to create hours of frustation for PHP Web designers and people trying to move their web site from one provider to another.

There are two common reasons your Word-press spell check will not work on an Windows IIS server. You will receive an error Similar to the following. The more common solution is related to you php.ini settings and the second is related to your firewall, Intrusion Prevention, and AJAX.

The windows hosts file can be used to convert domain names , such as “www.microsoft.com”, to a numeric form that computers understand and that this is done on the Internet by special computers called name or DNS servers. Facilitating migration from one provider to another, Speeding up browsing and blockage of ads and malware are applications of hosts files that I will discuss

Many wordpress bloggers seem to be having difficulty with “Pretty Permalinks” on IIS servers. The Solution is simple. If your on an IIS Server add /index.php/ to the front of your wordpress Permalink Settings Common Structure.