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Automatic IIS log removal

Having seen the data used on the C:\ drive of a number of Windows Small Business Server 2008 machines slowly spiral out of control, reducing the free space to only 1-2Gb on 50Gb+ drives I started to suspect something strange was happening. With the use of a handy tool named Tree Size which is available as a free download, I soon discovered it was the IIS logs that had been hogging all the space. IIS itself, performs no log rotation. The only way to control them is with the use of some VBS script. Continue reading

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