I hear a lot about the problem where web server (IIS) throws an error saying that PHP script has timed out in our forums . Let’s try to understand the reason behind this. I will be using a Windows 7 Enterprise machine (having IIS 7.5) to explain this...

The WebDeployment tool will be releasing a brand new feature in the newest update of version 1.1. This new feature will allow users to store their passwords in Window’s credential store on command-line using WebDeploy and / or access credential stored...

This week in the blog series (Introduction to the series – here ), let’s talk about Web Service Extensions feature in IIS6 UI and compare it to the IIS7.x ISAPI and CGI Restrictions feature. Web Service Extensions feature in IIS6.0 By default, the IIS6...

Recent release of FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 has several new features and improvements that make it easier to run PHP on Windows and IIS. However, all the new features are only available when using Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. FastCGI module on IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 supports most of these features. FastCGI module on IIS 7 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 does not support those new features yet. The reasons why this happens and the plan for updating FastCGI functionality across all platforms are explained in this post. FastCGI is supported across 4 different versions of IIS: IIS 5.1/6.0, IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5. The release models for each of those versions are different: FastCGI Extension...

I heard someone saying they were having trouble setting up Smooth Streaming for IIS, so I wanted to try it myself. If you just want to see Smooth Streaming work, visit http://www.smoothhd.com/ for some sample demos. They'll adapt to your bandwidth and...

We happy to announce that we just shipped an update to our RTW 1.0 bits with a set of bug fixes that have been reported on the forums and through our feedback channels. What's new: Credential store - no longer do you need to use your password on the command...

During the RC timeframe of Web Deploy, we published a couple of sample custom providers that help you understand how to extend msdeploy. One of them is the dbFullMySql custom provider that can sync MySql databases and the other is the batch file provider...

(this was originally published in the November 2005 edition of the IIS Insider http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb878107.aspx ) Network address translation (NAT) routers have become very common lately as they are inexpensive and offer an easy...

Are you wondering how various adaptive streaming technologies compare? A new comparison chart of the latest technologies from Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple may provide the answers....

New in the v1.1 release of the Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) is the ability to deploy .sql scripts which use SQLCMDs such as “:setvar” (a.k.a. TS Data scripts). Additionally, when using such scripts during the import or export of a package in the UI...

Few days back I made some code commit (code check-in) to WINCACHE SVN depot on PECL. I committed the test infrastructure to test WINCACHE. The entire test code can be see inside the folder at http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/wincache/trunk/tests/ . Let...

Last week we released a refresh for the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit v1.0. This version is a minor update that includes fixes for all the important bugs reported in the IIS.NET SEO Forum . Some of the fixes included in this version are: Pages sending the XHTML content type 'application/xhtml+xml' are not parsed correctly as HTML causing their links and violations to be empty. Report Analysis fails if the META tags include certain characters. <style> tag is not parsed correctly if it is empty causing Invalid Markup violations to be flagged incorrectly. Memory is not released when the "Store Copies of analyzed web pages locally" button is unchecked. HTML with leading empty lines and doctype fails to parse correctly...

Several months ago I read the following article and I found it fascinating, albeit in a humorous way: Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo It was around this same time that I saw an article about the Bing API being published and available for developers to use, so I thought that I would have some fun by merging the idea in that article with the Bing search API and create a little experiment on my home network. By way of explanation, my house has some overkill when it comes to computers - I'm running my own Active Directory domain, several web sites, and my family gets to the Internet through a server that's running Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 . One of the great things...

IIS team recently released FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0. One of the major new features added in this release is per application process pools. Per application process pools allow users to specify a unique FastCGI mapping for a particular...

Now that we have the series introduction out of the way, let’s start with the side by side comparison between the Start Pages for IIS6 vs. IIS7. IIS6 UI Start Page On a W2K3 machine, run “inetmgr” (Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager) IIS7/IIS7...