Contents tagged with IIS7
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IIS7: Gettin' Ready...Are you Ready?
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. For quite some time, IIS7 hasn't been a real thing - the thing that you can get your hands on and deploy. It is the moving target of "buzz words" and flashy demos to pull out the oohhs and ahhhs. Buckle up podro - only the strong survive.
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Getting Virtual Server '05 R2 Working on IIS7 in Longhorn Server
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 else out there who is trying the same darn thing. The nice thing - I know a lot about IIS7 making it much, much easier than if someone doesn't.
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Tracing ASP.NET Provider on Windows Vista
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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An Insiders Look at IIS7 Features - Let's Chat
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. I recently took time during the IIS Webcast Series - a part of the Live from Redmond Series - to take on both perspectives. You can see the higher level overiew in this webcast, while you can get the more visually appealing drill-down in this webcast - An Insider's Look into IIS7 Features.
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Lego Set & IIS7 - Componentization Rules!
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 Longhorn Server, gets true componentization of the Web sku it will be an awesome accomplishment. For now, I will live with putting specialized IIS Web servers with minimal components on the internet, extranet, or heck the intranet where we have long dominated - with pleasure. I spent an hour talking about the 40+ modules that comprise IIS, mostly native modules, and showed how we could strip them from our running processes.
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Get the Facts on Windows Vista & IIS 7.0 Compatibility
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 because of the fundamental changes in the platform. For some features, though, it simply didn't make sense to keep shipping the binary as today's Web technologies offer much more robust functionality.
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Getting Started with IIS 7.0
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 in 60 minutes or less is like asking a Porsche to governer at 28 MPH. It was stressful, yet exciting nonetheless. A good, non-textual based (like an article - this is great, just some like other ways to learn), review of what differs between IIS 6.0 & 7.0.
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Managing IIS 6.0 Servers from Windows Vista (and other Management Stuff)
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IIS7 Deployments calls for ETag Usage Review if using
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 enhance performance in web farm scenarios. ETags is controlled in IIS by a metabase property (ETAG_CHANGENUMBER) and this value is sent back to clients via response headers as instructed by the HTTP RFC 2616.