Jul 18, 2007
A term often expressed at the end of a journey is "its been a great ride." I can't argue or complain with that expression as it is exactly how I feel after 7 years of fun at Microsoft. The loose ends to tie up after this amount of time is vast so please...
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Jul 13, 2007
One of the moonlighting activities I have been doing is driving the release of the first IT Pro (sysadmin, etc.) IIS7 book on the market. This book started way back when we released Windows Vista & IIS7 and focuses heavily on giving many of you a...
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Jun 25, 2007
In a recent trip back to Nashville, TN., I had the pleasure of meeting with some other IT professionals at a local Microsoft "shop." We discussed several different things such as my feelings of Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and other various questions that...
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May 04, 2007
Back when I lived in the real world , I remember tearing into Windows 2000 at beta milestones. This included running 2000 professional on my desktop as well as building, stealing, or whatever I had to do to test hardware for my beta 2000 servers. It was...
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Filed under: IIS News Item TAP LearnIIS7
Apr 23, 2007
For months, in fact years, the IIS team has found itself fighting an uphill battle with IIS7 and customers. It is a proven fact that you can build amazing technology with a bucket-full of wanted features but until it is "real" - it is mostly hot air....
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Filed under: IIS News Item IIS7 IISNET_Enhance
Apr 16, 2007
Introduction With some nifty work and helpful insight, you can get Virtual Server 2005 working on Windows Server Code-named "Longhorn" just as I did this past weekend. I took some time to also validate (i.e doc) what I was doing as to maybe help someone...
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Filed under: IIS News Item VirtualServer IIS7
Apr 10, 2007
Introduction As many of you know, Windows Vista ships with our all-new Web Platform IIS7. I recently got an email from a customer who was struggling with getting a Failed Request Tracing rule setup on IIS7 on Vista Ultimate and asked the following question...
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Filed under: IIS News Item Vista TraceProviders IIS7
Mar 10, 2007
A recent question came into my queue asking about the meaning of the Connection_Dropped log entry in the Http.sys error log (%windir%\system32\logfiles\httperr). This error message, by defination, is not clear to most users - The reason phrase indicates...
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Filed under: IIS News Item, HTTP.sys IIS6
Mar 04, 2007
The 50,000 foot view often isn't what you are looking for especially when you can't see the topic and\or features in action. Instead, often you are only interested in seeing the functionality working and in action so that you can make sense out of it...
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Filed under: IIS News Item IIS7 Webcasts
Mar 03, 2007
In a recent webcast, I talked about how nice it is to have a componentize Web server. It is more important for IT Professionals because nothing is more frustrating than having to patch, patch, and do more patching. When our server, hopefully soon after...
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Filed under: IIS News Item IIS7 Webcasts
Mar 01, 2007
For many, the first question asked when a new version of IIS is released - what is known not to work? In a recent webcast, I discussed what the known issues were for IIS 7.0 vs. IIS 6.0 and how to workaround. The functionality often still works but differently...
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Filed under: IIS News Item IIS7 Webcasts
Feb 28, 2007
Introduction I recently delivered a webcast on Getting Started with IIS 7.0 aimed at educating newbies on IIS7 and bring them up to speed with what they have in front of them, and why it is so important that they do it! Reviewing the top reasons to upgrade...
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Filed under: IIS News Item IIS7 Webcasts
Jan 03, 2007
Introduction To my surprise, it seems there have been several questions from customers on how to manage their IIS 6.0 servers when running Windows Vista. It is surprisingly easy assuming that during the Vista & IIS7 setup process they installed the...
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Filed under: IIS7 Vista RemoteAdmin
Dec 30, 2006
Introduction One of my many holiday projects was to get Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 installed and running over the weekend at home to replace my Exchange 2003 installation. The most logical (and possibly the easiest, but who knows) thing to do is upgrade...
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Filed under: Exchange2007 Upgrade Project
Dec 18, 2006
Introduction Entity Tags (ETags) are commonly used in Web applications to effectively leverage the power of using web farms, which is a non-fancy term for HTTP/S load balancing. In web farms, a common practice is to set what is called ETags as it helps...
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Filed under: IIS News Item IIS7 Deploy ETag