Contents tagged with Deployment
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Web Farm Framework 2 now available for free download
Yesterday we shipped another awesome piece of software, this time for those who make their living running groups of Web servers. Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product. Web Farm Framework enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across your cluster, and also makes it easy to synchronize content, configuration and other resources associated with your ASP.NET or PHP applications.
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Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta released!
Last week my team released a super powerful update to our Web Farm Framework project aimed at dramatically simplifying the complexity of managing a Web farm (many computers running one or more Web sites).
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Microsoft Web Platform Installer v1.0 Released!
I’m excited to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer v 1.0. The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that makes it very easy to download and install Microsoft's entire Web Platform in one step, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform. Web PI 1.0 supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista and of course Windows 2008.
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How to Run Windows & IIS in the Cloud on Amazon EC2 (in 15 mins)
Choices abound for those looking for a place to run Web applications on Windows. The purpose of this blog post is to show a quick walkthrough of how to setup your first Windows computer in the cloud on Amazon EC2. If you’re already familiar with hosting and the cloud, skip the next few paragraphs.
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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!**
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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 Extension, the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger. A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10. We almost made it! We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today. Check them out here:
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IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download
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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
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IIS’ Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 Released
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.