MVolo's Blog : Goodies

IIS 7.0 bitrate throttling

mvolo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:42:00 GMT

Last week, the IIS team released bit-rate throttling module to the web.

As the self-proclaimed daddy of the project (I designed and wrote the initial prototype in early 2007), I am very thrittled to see it out. The new IIS media team folks have done a great job getting it production ready and rounding out the feature-set, which you can review in its full glory in Vishal's post.

Although the feature is a bit different from how I originally envisioned it, it kicks ass at doing what it is supposed to do - saving your bandwidth costs. Read more about at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/03/16/IIS-7.0-Bit_2D00_rate-throttling-module.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

Improved PortCheck 2.0 to diagnose IIS service connectivity problems

mvolo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:16:00 GMT

Due to demand for the original PortCheck tool, I decided to release the updated version that I myself have been using that has a few more features to help diagnose connectivity issues.

Download the tool, source code, and find out more about diagnosing IIS connectivity issues at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/01/23/Check-IIS-network-connectivity-with-PortCheck-v2.0.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike's IIS7 modules - what's coming next

mvolo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:08:00 GMT

During IIS7 development, I've written quite a few modules for IIS7 / ASP.NET. Some of these were for various demos, others were to help out various internal and external customers, and others just because they were fun to write.

Now, I am thinking about upgrading some of these with the feature requests and bugfixes you have been asking for, and getting some new ones up as well. Come check out what you can get right now, and weigh in on what I should next at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/10/28/Mike_2700_s-IIS7-modules-_2D00_-what_2700_s-coming-next.aspx.

IIS Authentication plugin for the Wordpress PHP blogging engine

mvolo — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:05:00 GMT

This weekend, I was working on an MSDN magazine article and happened to install the Wordpress PHP blog app on IIS7. Of course, I used the latest FastCGI bits available in the box in in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3, and the latest Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.3 build from www.php.net. Long story short, I ended up writing a Wordpress plugin that allows Wordpress to use IIS authentication methods, including forms authentication.

Read about installing Wordpress on IIS7, the Wordpress extensibility model, and get the IIS Authentication plugin here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-Wordpress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx.

IISSCHEMA.EXE - A tool to register IIS7 configuration sections

mvolo — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:53:00 GMT

IIS7 configuration extensibility allows you to create custom configuration sections that can be used side by side the IIS configuration sections. However, setting this up requires a few steps that may be difficult to accomplish, especially in a automated way from a script or an installer.

This post describes the IIS7 configuration extensibility, the steps to create and register your custom configuration sections, and provides a downloadable tool you can use to simplify and automate this process.

Read all about it and download IISSCHEMA.EXE here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/04/IISSCHEMA.EXE-_2D00_-A-tool-to-register-IIS7-configuration-sections.aspx.

Redirect clients in your application with HttpRedirection module

mvolo — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:28:00 GMT

In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url. A while ago, I wrote a module to do basic http redirection for an ASP.NET application. The HttpRedirection module allows you to configure regular expression-based rules that redirect clients from url A to url B, with a number of other features.

Learn more about rewriting and redirection, and download the HttpRedirection module / source code here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/24/Redirect-clients-in-your-application-with-HttpRedirection-module.aspx.

Get nice looking directory listings for your IIS website with DirectoryListingModule

mvolo — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:19:00 GMT

Do you hate bland directory listing pages that most web servers have these days?

Many of us do on the IIS team, and so over the past several years we've built a few directory listing modules to spice up IIS directory listings.

I figured I should put an end to this by writing one that is oh so much better then all the other ones - and then give it to you to build some cool templates, and create complely customized directory listings for your website.

Read more on http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/01/21/Get-nice-looking-directory-listings-for-your-IIS-website-with-DirectoryListingModule.aspx.