SOAP Compression is not enabled
The information in this article applies to:
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010
Windows Server 2008
Application-tier server
Team Foundation Server Complete Health Check
Team Foundation Server Framework Health Check
The Best Practices Analyzer tool for Team Foundation Server generates a SOAP request and verifies whether the content-encoded response header contains "gzip," which indicates that SOAP compression is enabled.
A warning appears if SOAP compression is not enabled. Enabling SOAP compression results in moderate increases in performance for users who are accessing servers on slower connections, such as a wide area network (WAN). For team project collections that contain a large cache of work item metadata, SOAP compression can significantly decrease network traffic. Also, team members will connect more quickly to Team Foundation Server, and the metadata for work items will appear more quickly.
Required Permissions
To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators security group on the application-tier server for Team Foundation.
Log on to the application-tier server, open a Command Prompt window as administrator, and paste the following commands into it:
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='application/soap%u002bxml; charset=UTF-8',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:"Microsoft Team Foundation Server Application Pool"
