October 2008 - Posts : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS’ Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 Released

Oct 30, 2008

The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool . MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going...

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IIS7 Smooth Streaming Announced in Partnership with Akamai

Oct 28, 2008

I am excited to announce an innovative new IIS7 feature called “ IIS Smooth Streaming ”, which will be available as a free IIS7 extension when released, with a public beta planned for early next year. Read John’s post (IIS Media PM) about Smooth...

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Quick Install of the World’s Most Popular Web Applications on IIS7

Oct 15, 2008

A few weeks ago I announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. Web PI makes it easy to obtain and install the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express and tons of...

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How to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin working with IIS7 and Windows 2008

Oct 14, 2008

Almost every popular PHP app that you may want to run on IIS7 requires MySQL. I just ran across a couple of really great articles which provide step by step instructions for how to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin running. First, learn how to get...

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Community Links 10/11/2008: URL Rewrite, ASP.NET, Extensibility, Diagnostics, WordPress

Oct 11, 2008

Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading: URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release. Deploy it today and get all the benefits...

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Where to download and buy IIS7 and Windows 2008

Oct 06, 2008

I've heard several people ask where to buy IIS7 and Windows 2008. First, if you want to download and try before you buy, Microsoft has made Windows 2008 trial editions available, with just a few clicks and a live ID you can download them today. If you...

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Fast Download and Install of Microsoft's Web Stack: IIS7, ASP.NET, SQL Express, Visual Web Developer, and more...

Oct 03, 2008

Let's face it, getting Microsoft's Web server, framework and tools installed is much more painful than it should be. Visit 10 different web sites, download a dozen different packages, install them one at a time, and maybe in a few hours you are ready...

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