November 2008 Archive on BillS IIS Blog

Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!

I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). **Update 1/20/2009 - the final v1.0 release is now available !** Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install...

ASP.NET supported on Server Core - Windows Server 2008 R2

In case you haven’t already heard the news, ASP.NET will now be enabled on Windows Server Core starting with Windows Server 2008 R2.  If you're not familiar with Server Core, it is a low footprint Server installation option that lays down just the...

Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…

Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has.  I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos.  And with each new...

IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download

I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension!  ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level...

Find New IIS7 Extensions at http://www.iis.net/extensions/

I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this...

IIS7 URL Rewrite Extension is finished – download now!

I’m excited to announce that the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is finished and available for download.  For more information on some last minute features we added, and how to download it, see Ruslan’s blog post here:  http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany...

Apache Emulation for IIS by Helicon Tech

Now this is something you don't see every day! I ran across Helicon Tech's latest IIS module today, called Helicon APE , which stands for Ap ache E mulation.  This looks like a very cool module for those who want to ‘emulate’ Apache’s runtime environment...

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