Mai-lan's Blog Posts

Contributions to the PHP Engine

I am always amazed at the passion and energy that open source contributors put into what is often their “night job” after whatever they do to pay the bills. It is that passion that has driven a vibrant community of PHP open source applications that ranges...

Real World IIS Videocasts for Community ASP.NET and PHP Application Packaging and Deployment

I just wrapped up a series of videocasts that target developers and users who want to experience a simplified deployment experience for apps and the Web stack on Windows, focusing particularly on ASP.NET and PHP open source community applications. For...

Real World IIS: Adding Web Deployment Tool Support to Community Application ZIP Packages (videocast)

If you package your application in ZIP format, you can add Web Deployment Tool support to simplify the installation of your application on Windows. Our open source application partners (ASP.NET apps like DotNetNuke and PHP apps like WordPress) add this...

Real World IIS: Staying Current with the Latest Microsoft Web Platform with Web Platform Installer (videocast)

If you have been plugged into what has happened across the Microsoft Web Platform in the last two years, you will have noticed a new focus on delivering free Web releases that extend the core functionality of the Microsoft Web stack. We do this all the...

Real World IIS: Packaging and Deploying an Open Source Application Using Web Deployment Tool (videocast)

Many Web site developers start development from an open source application as the base for a custom Web site. There are many high quality open source applications out there that make it much easier to put together a content, ecommerce, social network...

Real World IIS: Installing a Free Community Application Using Web Platform Installer (videocast)

In the 2.0 version of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) , we introduced the ability to install free community applications with Web Deployment Tool support from the Web PI directly. In March 2009, we launched the Windows Web Application Gallery , where...

Real World IIS: Finding and Installing Web Platform Installer 2.0 (videocast)

The Web Platform Installer 2.0 is a free IIS tool that makes it easy to discovery and install the Microsoft Web stack and free community apps from the Windows Web Application Gallery . It's the "first mile" to get started with the Web Platform and Web...

"Real World IIS" videocast series

I am starting a videocast series called "Real World IIS" that takes a tour through how to use our free IIS Web services extensions in the type of day-to-day activities that a developer and/or administrator might encounter. These videocasts will be short...

Videos of IIS sessions at MIX 2009

If you are interested, you can check out the videos of the three IIS sessions at MIX. The sessions were 75 minutes long. I will be posting some shorter videos soon on IIS.NET for demos of how different IIS extensions work, starting with Web Platform Installer...

PHP Installation using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer v2 Beta

If you want to easily install PHP on Windows, you can use the newly released Microsoft Web Platform Installer v2 Beta to get the public community version of PHP ((VC6 x86 non thread safe installer build) on Windows XP/Vista/Server 2003/Server 2008/Win...

Community Applications and the Windows Web Application Gallery

We launched the Windows Web Application Gallery today at MIX. Bill demoed Web Platform Installer (Web PI) and the Web Application Gallery in the keynote, showing off how selecting an application from the Web App Gallery clicks off a targeted install experience...

IIS At MIX 2009: 10 New IIS Server Extensions, Windows Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta

Today, at the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IIS team rolls out a whole new set of releases... ten (yes,10) new free Web server extensions with a new end-to-end story for installing popular community applications like WordPress, Acquia Drupal,...

IIS7 in Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes new additions to the IIS7 Web server, adding fit, finish, and a few extras to the best IIS platform ever. For the last year and a half, the IIS product team has been working hard on building IIS extensions on top of the...

TechNet/MSDN IIS7 front-end servers running 100% virtualized using Hyper-V

We get a lot of questions about best practices for Hyper-V and IIS. The answer is pretty simple so far...it just seems to work, aside from the normal overhead for virtualization on a workload. Customers are already starting to or planning to deploy IIS...

DiscountASP.NET IIS Manager UI extensions

One of the hosters who we work with, DiscountASP.NET (an ASP.NET focused web hoster based in sunny Southern California), has just launched a beta of two new UI extensions for the IIS Manager for their customers. One of them is a web.config backup/restore...

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Mai-lan is the Product Unit Manager for IIS. Previous to IIS, she worked on Windows Essentials Business Server, Microsoft Office Visio developer platform, and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). Outside of Microsoft, Mai-lan was part of the early days at Qpass and digeo broadband, two startups in Seattle. Mai-lan is married with three kids and lives in Seattle.

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