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IIS7 post #48 - IIS 7 shared hosting guidance

Jul 27, 2007

I believe this was posted by Faith Allington. This contains a lot of 'great' material. It is worth checking

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IIS 7 shared hosting guidance

May 28, 2007

We're releasing a draft version of our shared hosting guidance for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. Currently it covers mainly IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0, but we will be adding more content for other components. Highlights for shared hosting on IIS 7.0 covered...

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Go live with IIS 7 today!

Apr 26, 2007

The IIS team has announced that Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" Server Beta 3 has reached a high level of quality and is ready for your testing. You can test awesome new hosting features in IIS 7 and roll it out for beta hosting. Find out...

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ASP.NET applications running out of memory?

Apr 25, 2007

One thing you can do to help save memory usage is to enable the WorkstationGC. The GC, or garbage collector, manages the memory for appDomains. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911716

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Microsoft's Hosting Summit 2007 - Day 2

Mar 21, 2007

Yesterday was the second day at the Hosting Summit. There are folks from around the world here. We started off with great keynotes from Michael O'Hara and John Zanni, and of course, a hilarious spoof of <a href=" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

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Using WMI to change the local administrator password for all servers in an OU or Container

Feb 20, 2007

Just sharing a nice little script to query all the computers in an OU and change the local Administrator password for each one. One thing to note, if your computers happen to be in the default Computers container, you need to change the LDAP query from...

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IIS requests could be slower if your log file directory is invalid or offline

Feb 15, 2007

If you are pointing your W3SVC log files to a location that is incorrect or goes offline, especially if it is a remote UNC share like \\server\logs – your requests on IIS 6 could be slower. The reason is that HTTP.sys wants to write an entry for...

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FPSE on IIS 7 Longhorn

Feb 13, 2007

An update from Robert about FPSE: "Because Microsoft realizes that the FrontPage Server Extensions are essential to many web hosting companies, the Internet Information Services product team is researching the development of an updated version of...

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Getting 64-bit or 32-bit applications working on IIS 6.0 x64

Feb 12, 2007

When running on x64 hardware, you have two options. First, to run in native 64-bit mode. This means all the applications running need to be 64-bit. The second is to run worker processes in 32-bit mode, which means all applications need to be 32-bit. This...

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SharePoint v3 templates - the fantastic 40

Feb 09, 2007

The new SharePoint templates have arrived. To provide a complete solution, especially for small businesses, SharePoint v3 offers these pre-packaged templates. Each one solves a business problem and offers not only a fully functioning site out of the box...

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SharePoint (WSS v3) Guidance for Shared Hosting

Jan 31, 2007

SharePoint v3 offers a lot of great features and functionality for hosters and this whitepaper talks about how to use these features to create a shared hosting solution. The whitepaper is built upon lessons learned from a dozen or so hosting partners...

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PHP and IIS together

Nov 09, 2006

Not particularly new news now, but if you haven't started investigating PHP on Windows yet, here's your chance. Not only did IIS collaborate with Zend, they also made a download available for IIS 7 and IIS 6. From the news article on iis.net,...

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Hosting IIS with UNC content - Network BIOS commands and other errors

Oct 30, 2006

IIS and UNC - everyone wants to know more. The ASP.NET 2.0 Deployment Guide already talks about configuring ASP.NET over UNC. So now, let's explore SMB work contexts and how they are a huge factor for IIS/UNC configurations. Between two Windows server...

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Do you want to get your data from SQL Express (mdf) to a SQL Server database?

Oct 17, 2006

There's a new tool available from the SQL team that helps you transfer your data from a local SQL Express file to a hosted SQL Server database. We've all heard customers asking how to get their local mdf into their hosted database. Now there is...

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Are you a system or web administrator looking for a great opportunity?

Sep 27, 2006

Our hosting team at Microsoft is hiring ... so if you're a system or web administrator (or you know one), this is a unique opportunity to work with the IIS product team on a really cool project. We provide internal hosting in order to deploy and test...

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Chris Adams is a former Program Manager on the IIS team at Microsoft. He was in charge of running the IIS.NET portal, the MVP community, and delivery of educational training to customers in the form of webcasts, live presentations, and other venues. He is also the architect of the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit, a consolidated suite of tools aimed at helping customers solve their primary troubleshooting issues, and was the lead for the SSLDiag, AuthDiag, and TraceDiag tools.

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