Mar 20, 2010
Today, I was checking one of my favorite blogs by Tess Fernandez , which is a great source of discussions, tips and tricks around debugging. One of the latest blogs is about GCRootToDGML tool written by Chris Lovett to generate a visual representation...
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Tags: Web PIWeb PI APIsDGML
Feb 27, 2010
Suppose you have a central Internet faced server and multiple backend servers not connected to the Internet. To insure that your Internet faced server is always up-to-date with the latest Microsoft Web Stack products and updates, you can use Web Platform...
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Tags: Web PIWeb PI APIs
Feb 11, 2010
In my previous blog posts, I described how to create custom feeds for Web Platform Installer to install custom products and applications . There are many uses to these custom feeds from automatically setting up your environment with custom products in...
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Jan 25, 2010
SIR stands for S niffer, I nstaller and R eporter which comprise the three components of the tool’s validation workflow. Application Gallery SIR is a tool that can be used to validate Application Gallery packages, which have to be valid Web Deploy packages...
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Tags: Web Deploy PackagesWeb App GallerySIRWeb Deploy Package Validation
Jan 25, 2010
SIR is a tool to validate Application Gallery packages. SIR comes in three different flavors, a dll, command-line tool and a web application. To read more about the dll and command line usage, you can refer to this blog . In this blog, you will learn...
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Nov 04, 2009
As many of you already know, version 2 RTW of Web Platform Installer released in September. So what’s new in this version since RC that was released in March? First of all, Web PI now caches downloaded installers. Second of all, Web PI now supports 9...
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Oct 29, 2009
Web Platform Installer now offers a set of Media and Azure products that are not included in the set of Web PI products by default. These additional scenarios can be enabled through the options dialog: Options dialog is a new RTW dialog that allows enabling...
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Tags: web PI ExtensibilityWeb PI
Oct 29, 2009
Version 2 RTW of Web Platform Installer, released in September, now not only comes localized in 9 languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, but also supports installations of...
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Oct 24, 2009
One of the most important features of Web Platform Installer , version 2 RTW of which released in September, is that it surfaces web applications offered by Windows Web App Gallery . The Gallery is the place for open source apps that can be submitted...
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Oct 24, 2009
As it was already mentioned in several articles about Web Platform Installer (Web PI), version 2 RTW of the product now offers extensibility as a part of its new set of features. Now, users can not only add additional Media and Developer Tools scenarios...
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Tags: web PI ExtensibilityWeb PIWeb PI Custom Feeds
Jun 19, 2009
NOTE: All code and instructions in this blog post were updated to work with the latest version of Web Deploy v1.1 . A blog post that outlines the changes that are required to custom providers in Web Deploy v.1.1 since Web Deploy v1 RC is here . Overview...
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Tags: Web Deploy ExtensibilityWeb Deploy
Jun 05, 2009
This article is meant to provide a quick reference troubleshooting guide to help with the most frequently encountered problems and questions. It does not contain a full list of issues and problems, but will be updated with the latest issues and workarounds...
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Jun 03, 2009
Last week, IIS Remote Manager was re-released to support Windows 7. Prior to this release, remote management was supported only on XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008 (excluding Home Basic editions). Now, the users can install Remote Manager...
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Tags: IIS Remote ManagerIIS 7.5