October 2006 Archive on BillS IIS Blog

PHP on IIS7 w/FastCGI

I'm attending ZendCon today and giving a demo in the keynote presentation by Andi Gutmans, one of the creators of PHP, and co-founder of Zend. I'm psyched to show off IIS7 and PHP along-side Andi! I only have 5 mins to demo, so I decided to focus the...

Microsoft Announces Collaboration with Zend to Improve PHP on Windows and IIS

I'm attending ZendCon today and giving a demo in the keynote presentation by Andi Gutmans, one of the creators of PHP, and co-founder of Zend. I am really excited to be a part of the announcement of technical collaboration between Microsoft and Zend to...

Why you're gonna love IIS7/Vista for Web development

I had an interesting experience this weekend. I fell in love with IIS7 on Vista. You know the feeling, I'm sure you've had it before. That feeling when you finally see something or someone for their full potential, and you start dreaming of all the things...

Improving Custom Errors for IIS7 Server

Another one of my favorite features is the IIS7 Detailed Errors feature. Thomas wrote a great article titled Understanding Custom and Detailed Errors which provides a good overview of this simple, yet powerful feature. (though it needs to be updated for...

Making Failed Request Tracing More Approachable

One of my favorite IIS7 features is something we call "FREB", which originally stood for "Failed Request Event Buffering". We've given it a more friedly name now: 'failed request tracing', but everyone around here still calls it freb. It is a really awesome...

loadUserProfile and IIS7 - understanding temporary directory failures

I've noticed quite a few people running into temporary directory permission issues. The PHP blog post I made last month is one example of this issue, there are also several forum posts related to ASP & Access database failures, where the reported...

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