Drew's IIS Blog : IIS7

New Web Deployment Tool for IIS7

drobbins — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:25:15 GMT

The IIS team today released the technical preview of a new web deployment tool that addresses many of the requests I've heard from developers for making the deployment of web applications easier on the Windows platform. The new tool allows for synchronization of applications between IIS6 and IIS7 web servers, migration of applications from IIS6 to IIS7 and analysis and troubleshooting of applications during deployment/migration.

The best place to start is to download and read the walkthroughs for the new deployment tool. This will give you a really good overview of all the tasks you can accomplish with the tool. Then, you can start testing the tool with your own applications to see how it will ease deployment and migration for our scenario. The technical preview should only be used in a test lab, not in a production environment.

Of course, the point of a technical preview is both to let you see the technology and to get your feedback. For that purpose, there is both a blog and a forum setup for you to talk back to the product team.

Have fun!

How to Get Started

Download and read the walkthroughs: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8100895

Download the x86 version: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1602

Download the x64 version: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1603

Web Deployment Tool forum: http://forums.iis.net/1144.aspx

Web Deployment Team blog: http://blogs.iis.net/msdeploy/

January-February MSDN Events on IIS7

drobbins — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:20:30 GMT

If you are in the U.S. and interested in hearing more about what's new for developers in IIS7, the MSDN Presenters will be traveling the states and presenting in a theater near you. That's right a movie theater. The thing I always love about attending the MSDN events is the free popcorn from the movie theater. :)

You can find an event near you and register at http://msdnevents.com/register.aspx

From the website:

In days past, a Web server was simply a place to throw your static and dynamic pages for delivery. That’s all changed with recent releases of IIS – and IIS 7 is no exception. This session will highlight several key features of IIS that make it our most extensible, manageable and secure Web platform ever. You’ll learn about the modular design of IIS and the integrated pipeline, providing for new scenarios that involve sharing authentication across IIS, ASP.NET and other dynamic web server runtimes. We’ll explore how the new IIS protocol listeners enable IIS to host WCF services on a variety of protocols (not just HTTP), providing a scalable and manageable host for your distributed applications. You’ll see how easy it is to write modules and handlers in managed code. Plus you’ll learn about the new security aspects of IIS 7, from initial deployment to feature delegation to administrator lists. After this lively session, you’ll be raring to do much more with your Web server than simply copying over ASP.NET pages.