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How to Migrate from IIS 6 to IIS 7

With so many cool new capabilities in IIS7 , and even more new features coming out all the time , it's no wonder you want to move to IIS7. But you work for The Man, and everyone knows The Man wants ROI . He can't just let you go willy-nilly and adopt...

How to manage IIS7 remotely from Windows Vista

I just ran across a fantastic step-by-step walkthrough of how to manage IIS7 remotely from Windows Vista, written by Dave Lawlor over at Train Signal Training. Check out this article: http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/iis-7-remote-administration/2008...

DiscountASP.NET offers beta IIS Manager extensions

DiscountASP.NET - a great low-cost Windows/IIS7 hosting provider - has agreed to offer the current Admin Pack and Database Manager extensions for "IIS Manager" free to their customers.  I connected up to their test server from my home PC...

Real World Performance Data on IIS7

Interested in knowing what kind of performance gains you can expect from IIS7?  The Microsoft.com operations folks have put together a great summary of their real-world performance data .  The short story is: IIS7 servers handle 31% more requests...

How to install ASP.NET 1.1 with IIS7 on Vista and Windows 2008

Overview ASP.NET 2.0 (3.0 and 3.5) are easy to install with Windows Vista and Windows 2008 - just install the ASP.NET component located under IIS->Word Wide Web Services->Application Development Features. You can find this set of components in Windows...

How to get new features for IIS7

If you've been following http://blogs.iis.net/ or http://www.iis.net/downloads/ lately you've probably noticed a lot of IIS software releases coming out with lots of odd acronyms... CTPs, GoLive releases, RTWs. You may wonder: what are these releases...

How to Script / Automate IIS7 Configuration (without writing code)

I hear this question a lot in the http://forums.iis.net/ , and thanks to Carlos and team's rocking Configuration Editor, figuring this out on your own is a breeze. Here is how you can generate code for ANY IIS7 configuration change, without writing a...

URL Rewrite module for IIS7

One of the most hotly requested features for IIS is now available! Yesterday we shipped the first technical preview of a new URLrewrite module for IIS7. It is free for all IIS7 users and available for download x86 and x64 . Thomas and Carlos have blogged...

SQL Injection Attacks on IIS Web Servers

You may have seen recent reports that have surfaced stating that web sites running on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 have been compromised. These reports allude to a possible vulnerability in IIS or issues related to Security...

Windows Web Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005

One of the things I'm most excited about Windows Server 2008 is the new Web-focused version of Windows called Windows Web Server 2008.  It is a special, low-priced version of Windows (only $469 retail, half the price of Standard edition and available...

MTS 2008 - IIS7 Session

In an hour or so I will be on stage at the Microsoft Technology Summit.  I think I've presented every year since they started MTS - a small conference here in Redmond for technology influentials, particularly those of competitive platforms. ...

How to add mime types with IIS7 Web.config

Ever wanted to add a custom mime type to your Web server?  I ran into this issue the other day when I tried to serve up .mp4 files from my Web server and duh, I got this error: 404.3 error - mime type missing! Why does IIS block requests for unknown...

How to backup/restore IIS7 configuration

Won's recent post on possible configuration corruption caused by OneCare/Forefront reminded me of something that every IIS7 customer should know about: how to backup and restore IIS7 configuration! No matter whether your configuration file gets corrupted...

How to enable directory browsing with IIS7 web.config

IIS7 includes an all-new distributed configuration option, which allows for IIS7 configuration to be stored in web.config files, along with asp.net configuration, to be deployed with your content.  This makes transferring IIS7 configuration from...

How to (un)block directories with IIS7 web.config

IIS7 includes an all-new distributed configuration option, which allows for IIS7 configuration to be stored in web.config files, along with asp.net configuration, to be deployed with your content.  This makes transferring IIS7 configuration from...

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Bill Staples is a long time web enthusiast currently employed at Microsoft Corporation where he runs the Web Server engineering teams. Bill began his involvement with the web community in the early nineties, developing with rudimentary CGI applications on Apache server and Linux. Over the past ten years he has worked on web technologies running on OS platforms from Solaris to Windows, using dynamic scripting technologies including Cold Fusion, PERL, ASP, and ASP.NET. For the past several years Bill has led the IIS team at Microsoft, including the IIS 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0 projects.

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