Jun 18, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, Compatibility, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators, Migration
Jun 12, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Developers, Administrators
Jun 12, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, Developers
Jun 09, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, IIS News Item, Developers, Performance, Administrators
Jun 02, 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...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, Administration, Compatibility, Developers, Administrators
Jun 02, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, Community, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators
Jun 01, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, Administration, Samples & Demos, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators, Configuration, Tutorial
May 31, 2008
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...
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Filed under: ASP.NET, PHP, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators
Apr 25, 2008
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...
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Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators, Security
Apr 15, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators
Mar 27, 2008
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. ...
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Filed under: IIS7
Mar 25, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Developers, Administrators, Configuration, Tutorial
Mar 24, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Troubleshooting, Developers, Administrators, Configuration
Mar 24, 2008
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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Filed under: IIS7, Developers, Administrators, Configuration, Tutorial
Mar 23, 2008
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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Filed under: IIS7, Developers, Configuration, Tutorial