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Real World IIS: Installing a Free Community Application Using Web Platform Installer (videocast)
In March 2009, we launched the Windows Web Application Gallery, where Windows users can find and install free community applications easily on IIS. The Windows Web Application Gallery provides links to both ASP.NET and PHP applications and we're seeing strong user interest in both. You can get a Web content management system, blogs, and wikis. We are adding more ASP.NET and PHP community applications every month.
When we add an application to the Web App Gallery, the app gets added to an ATOM feed that is both consumed by the Web App Gallery and displayed within the Web Platform Installer (Web PI). So you can either visit the Web App Gallery web site or use the Web Platform Installer directly to find the same free community apps easily on IIS. You can learn more about Web PI here and Web App Gallery here.
This short video (just under 8 minutes) walks you through how to install Umbraco, an open source ASP.NET community application, from the Web PI.
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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 App Gallery applications on IIS.
We're seeing thousands of downloads of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) by developers and administrators who use Web PI to discovery and stay up to date with the latest components in the Web stack. (We use Web PI here on the product team to set up and stay current with desktops/laptops and servers.) We also launched the Windows Web Application Gallery last month, which provides a way for users to discovery and download open source applications (ASP.NET and PHP) onto Windows. Every application in the Web App Gallery is download by Web Platform Installer (Web PI), so it's a critical component of the process.
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"Real World IIS" videocast series
In the first part of the series, I am going to focus on Web downloads that help make it easy to discover, deploy and manage ASP.NET and PHP applications on IIS7. I think developers and other users will be pleasantly surprised to find out about what IIS lets you do with Web apps today.
In the second part of the series, I will talk about extensions that take the IIS Web server into new territory, from load balancing to media to server migration. We have used the IIS7 extensibility platform to open up the core Web server to all these new scenarios.
Hope you enjoy the series! We've been busy here in Redmond. :-)
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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 and IIS Database Manager.
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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 7 with IIS and the Microsoft Web Platform. The Windows Installer for PHP also automatically configures IIS FastCGI as part of its setup.