Sometime in a non AD environment you need a user to run an App Pool so you can do cross server work (i.e. SQL). Before you can use the user in the App Pool identity you have to tell ASP.NET that they should be allow to run ASP.NET.

Simple command to run from the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 directory

aspnet_regiis.exe –ga [UserName]

This will tell ASP.NET to allow this user to access temp directories and the assembly code.

 I wrote this when I needed to make all of my images folders purely anonymous reading. I dont want to ever run into an issue of an image that is not checked in. Create a console app and replace the main with the code below. It will crawl the whole site and make all images (publishing images) fully anonymous for reading.

 static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            bool requireApproval = false;

            // open the site
            SPSite site = new SPSite(http://YOUR_SITE);
            // open the web
            SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

            ProcessWeb(web, requireApproval);

            return;

            // open the web collection
            SPWebCollection webcoll = web.Webs;

            // parse through the webs
            foreach (SPWeb webx in webcoll)
            {
                ProcessWeb(webx, requireApproval);
            }

            Console.Read();
        }

        public static void ProcessWeb(SPWeb webx, bool requireApproval)
        {
            Console.Write("Processing " + webx.Url + "\n");

            // get the list
            SPListCollection lists = webx.Lists;

            // looks for our Pages list
            foreach (SPList siteList in lists)
            {
                if (siteList.Title == "Images")
                {

                    //PublishingWeb pweb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(webx);

                    //PublishingPageCollection ppages = pweb.GetPublishingPages();

                    bool fixSite = false;

                    siteList.EnableModeration = false;
                    siteList.ForceCheckout = false;
                    siteList.AllowEveryoneViewItems = false;
                    siteList.DraftVersionVisibility = DraftVisibilityType.Reader;
                    siteList.Update();

                    fixSite = true;

                    if (siteList.WorkflowAssociations.Count > 1)
                    {
                        SPWorkflowAssociationCollection wfCol = siteList.WorkflowAssociations;
                        SPWorkflowAssociation wf = wfCol.GetAssociationByName("Parallel Approval", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

                        wf.Enabled = false;

                        siteList.UpdateWorkflowAssociation(wf);
                    }
                }
            }

            if (webx.Webs.Count > 0)
            {
                foreach (SPWeb webNext in webx.Webs)
                {
                    ProcessWeb(webNext, requireApproval);

                }
            }
        }

Got it from here. 

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CD C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\ [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/GZIP/HcFileExtensions “htm” “html” “txt” “ppt” “xls” “xml” “pdf” “xslt” “doc” “xsl” “htc” “js” “css” [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/DEFLATE/HcFileExtensions “htm” “html” “txt” “ppt” “xls” “xml” “pdf” “xslt” “doc” “xsl” “htc” “js” “css” [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/GZIP/HcScriptFileExtensions “asp” “dll” “exe” “aspx” “asmx” “ashx” [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/DEFLATE/HcScriptFileExtensions “asp” “dll” “exe” “aspx” “asmx” [Enter]

IISreset.exe /restart [Enter]

Then right click on WebSites > Properties > Enable compression on static files and applications.

I ran into a problem recently where some pages on a site were rejected without my knowing it. I needed a quick fix to go and locate all those pages. Here is my answer:

As you crawl through a site by list or by PublishingSite, send the SPListItem into this. It will tell you if it is denied.

private static bool moderationPendingFix(SPListItem curItem)
{
 if (curItem.ParentList.EnableModeration == true)
 {
  SPModerationInformation moderationInformation = curItem.ModerationInformation;

  if (moderationInformation.Status != SPModerationStatusType.Denied)
   return true;
  else

   return false;
 }

 else

  return true;
}

I have been dealing with a problem for while in Entity Framework. When I compile the EF models the ssdl, msl, csdl files are put in the solution. Then I put my connection strings to those files in my web.confg. The issue I have is that we do a lot of work on MS Terminal Server. Since we have a lot of other people on there, I force the users to save the models to a separate and unique folder. They then reference the models in their web.config. Once in a while the user will accidentally check in that web.config into TFS. That causes chaos because now I am using their models in my running environment. Any change they make breaks my project. Any change I make I don’t see. Then I have to go in and change my web.config to reference my models locations. Simple but a pain.

Well thanks to Jonathan Carter  I have now solved that problem. With a small change to the model properties the schema files get embedded into the assembly. Then you change reference in your web.config to the compiled versions. Tada no more head aches.

You can read all about it in  Julie Lerman’s post.