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I came across the above error while setting up a podcast for Hot Ginger recently and the solution was’nt simple. The information is out there but it was a combination of a number of suggestions that eventually worked.

Assuming you already have uploads working in the WP media library (and therfore your basic configuration is correct) there are three configuration steps needed to enable support for large files with WordPress running on IIS7.

IIS Settings (web.config)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <security>
		<requestFiltering>
			<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2000000000" />
		</requestFiltering>
	</security>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

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