May 29, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, IIS News Item
May 02, 2008
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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Filed under: IIS7
Apr 29, 2008
Since there have been several questions in the IIS FastCGI forums regarding using IIS CPU Limits feature together with FastCGI, I wanted to talk a little more about how what you should do if you are trying to control CPU while running PHP on IIS7. First...
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Filed under: IIS7
Mar 07, 2008
I just got back from MIX08 in Vegas where I gave a talk called “Everything You Need To Know About Debugging and Diagnostics with IIS7.” It was a fun talk. There were a fewIT administrators and a whole lot of developers. When we have talked about this...
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Filed under: IIS7
Feb 27, 2008
So...notice anything different today? :-) Thanks to the efforts of a whole team of people here in Redmond, Telligent, Goldman Design and ORCS Web, we have significantly overhauled our www.IIS.net web site. As you can tell from the depth of the content...
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Filed under: IIS7, IIS News Item
Jan 28, 2008
We recently released IIS7's Web Deploy, which gives you the ability to migrate and synchronize IIS6 and IIS7 applications(download the x86 bits here and the x64 bits here ). Take a minute and think about the tasks that you do right now to move a web application...
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Jan 13, 2008
Right before the holidays, we did some radio broadcasts on our team targeting the IT Professional and focusing on specific topics of interest in IIS7. Isaac Roybal, product manager, interviewed me on what it means to deploy and manage a customized web...
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Filed under: IIS7, IIS News Item
Jan 12, 2008
IIS7 is a big release for developers. For example, we've changed our extensibility model in this version to make it easier for customers and vendors to build web applications and extend the Web server. I think two of the most interesting innovations in...
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Filed under: IIS7
Jan 10, 2008
In IIS7 RC0, one of the neat new features we added were two performance counters that give you a window into what’s happening on a per worker processes and the application level at runtime. This is useful because it lets you have a finer-grained monitoring...
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Filed under: IIS7
Dec 15, 2007
I gave a presentation recently on automating IIS from the command-line (you can check it out at: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032352182&role=attend&pw=D80FDE8D ). I focused on how to manage IIS using PowerShell, WMI, and...
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Filed under: IIS7
Dec 15, 2007
I have troubleshooting on the mind this week since we just released the IIS7 health model (you can check it out at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/b19873a2-9f72-40c8-b73d-89f39cda62781033.mspx?mfr=true ). When we talk about...
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Filed under: IIS7
Dec 07, 2007
Windows Server 2008 RC1 is available for download! We are feature and quality complete with this release. In this build, we address feedback that we have gotten from customers in beta and our RC0 release. There is nothing quite like deploying IIS7 in...
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Filed under: IIS7, IIS News Item
Dec 07, 2007
I just realized that I had a bunch of comments stacked up in an unapproved queue. Sorry! I had some spam issues with the blog and switched to moderated comments. I've gone through and pushed the comments through now, and will be answering them. I really...
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Dec 07, 2007
As it has been already mentioned in download instructions for FastCGI Extension RTM for IIS 6, we do not support in-place upgrade of FastCGI Extension from pre-RTM builds to RTM build. If you have been running pre-RTM build (such as GoLive release or...
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Filed under: IIS News Item
Nov 15, 2007
So far, we have only had two patches for IIS7 on Vista. Behavior : We have seen some CGI applications (especially PHP applications that use the built-in CGI component) fail on Vista because we are unable to support multiple "cookies" for authentication...
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