hosterposter : Windows Server 2008

New web deployment tool is available

Hoster Poster — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:46:00 GMT

Hey everyone, long time since the last blog post but we're still here and we have some great news to report. The IIS team just released the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool on www.iis.net . It is a command-line tool that provides support for deploying, synchronizing and migrating IIS 6.0 and 7.0. It supports moving configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a web server. You can choose to sync a single site or the entire web server. It's pretty flexible, as you'll discover from the documentation. However - it is a technical preview, so it shouldn't be used for production servers and it may change quite a bit before it ships as a finished tool. The team is interested in feedback from the hosting community, so...(read more)

IIS 7 shared hosting guidance

Hoster Poster — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:26:00 GMT

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 in this document: · Ability to share configuration between multiple servers · Centralized management for servers and web farms · Remote administration for non-administrators · Custom delegation of features for each site or application · Improved performance and security for CGI applications on Windows · Isolated configuration for application pools Specifically, you will learn the recommendations for IIS 7 shared hosting, how to configure remote administration, how to share your server configuration...(read more)