Robert McMurray : WebDAV

Using Apple's WebDavFS for Mac OS X with WebDAV on IIS 7

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:19:00 GMT

Today's blog post needs to have a disclaimer right up front - I freely admit I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so I may not have everything 100% correct in this post. But I've seen a lot of questions on forums.iis.net that discuss using IIS WebDAV with Mac OS X, so I thought that I'd share a few of the things that I've noticed. Just the same, if I were writing a formal walkthrough I would have said something like, " Microsoft is not responsible for the behavior of Apple's Mac family of products. The information that is provided in this topic is provided to assist Mac OS X users connect to IIS using WebDAV. " All that being said, here are the prerequisites for getting your environment together: Your server needs to be running Windows Vista, Windows...(read more)

FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released!

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:29:00 GMT

Over the next few days you're going to hear a lot of details about many of the great new IIS extensions that the IIS feature team is releasing for the 2009 MIX Conference in Las Vegas later today. I don't want to spoil any surprises by talking about anyone else’s feature areas, but I’m about to board a plane to head out on vacation (to Peru!) and I'm not taking a computer with me (believe it or not!) so I thought that I’d take a moment to highlight just a few of the features that are in the FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 releases. FTP 7.5 One of the great new features in FTP 7.5 is extensibility . We had some extensibility features that were partially implemented in FTP 7.0, and we used those for the ASP.NET and IIS Manager authentication providers...(read more)

Life after FPSE (Part 4)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:14:00 GMT

In continuation from my previous blog posts on on the subject of migrating from FPSE to WebDAV, today's blog post will address a combination of issues that I've run into and some implementation ideas. Listing content in virtual directories One different that I ran into rather quickly after I migrated a couple of web sites from FPSE to WebDAV was that suddenly my virtual directories were visible in my web authoring tool, which is Microsoft Expression Web. By default, virtual directories didn't show up when using FPSE - you had to explicitly "install" FPSE on individual virtual directories in order to use them from FrontPage or Visual Studio over the FPSE protocol. For one web site this was somewhat alarming, because I had a web site...(read more)

Life after FPSE (Part 3)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:09:51 GMT

In continuation from on my blog posts on April 17th and April 23rd , today's blog post will continue to examine moving from the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to WebDAV, and today I'm going to address a combination of issues that I've run into and questions that I've received from customers. WebDAV Authoring Rules versus FPSE Roles FPSE had a variety of built-in roles defined that have no replacement in a WebDAV world, but in all actuality most of those roles have no meaning in a WebDAV world. FPSE Roles were built around a set of User Rights, with several predefined roles like Administrator, Author, Contributor, and Browser. Each of these predefined roles contained various User Rights, and you could create your own roles from scratch by...(read more)

WebDAV Extension for Windows Server 2008 RTM is released!

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:45:00 GMT

Earlier today the Microsoft released the RTM version of the new Microsoft WebDAV Extension for IIS 7.0 for Windows Server 2008! Listed below are the links for the download pages for each of the individual installation packages: 32-bit Installation Package : WebDAV (x86) Extension Module for IIS 7.0 64-bit Installation Package : WebDAV (x64) Extension Module for IIS 7.0 We've loaded this version with many great new features such as: Integration with IIS 7.0 : The new WebDAV extension module is fully integrated with the new IIS 7.0 administration interface and configuration store. Per-site Configuration : WebDAV can be enabled and configured at the site-level on IIS 7.0, which differed from IIS 6.0 where WebDAV was enabled at the server-level...(read more)

Enabling WebDAV on IIS 6

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:02:00 GMT

I had a great question from someone the other day about enabling WebDAV on IIS 6, so I wrote a simple Windows Script Host (WSH) utility that does the trick. Because I'm a firm believer that writing code for one person will ultimately benefit someone else, I'm making that script the subject of today's blog post. ;-) Note : The following script makes use of several IIS 6 metabase properties, and you can see the following topics for more information: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525087(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525016(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524576(VS.85).aspx To use this script, use the following steps: Copy the WSH code listed below and paste it into a text editor, such...(read more)

WebDAV Redirector Registry Settings

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:42:00 GMT

Following up on the release of the WebDAV module for IIS 7 , I've been experimenting with the WebDAV redirector that comes with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This redirector ships as an updated WebClient service, and if you're using Windows Vista it should already be installed, but on Windows Server 2008 you will need to install the "Desktop Experience" feature. Once installed, you can map drives to WebDAV shares much like mapping Through some experimentation, I discovered some WebClient service behaviors that I wanted to explain. For example, if I tried to map a drive to a web site that did not have WebDAV enabled I would get an error as expected. But after I enabled WebDAV, I would continue to get an error until some period of additional...(read more)

WebDAV Module for Windows Server 2008 GoLive Beta is released

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:55:00 GMT

Earlier today the IIS product team released the GoLive beta version of the new WebDAV extension module for IIS 7. (This version is currently available for Windows Server 2008 only.) Listed below are the links for the download pages for each of the individual installation packages: 32-bit Installation Package : WebDAV Extension Module for IIS 7.0 (x86) 64-bit Installation Package : WebDAV Extension Module for IIS 7.0 (x64) We've loaded this version with many great new features such as: Integration with IIS 7.0 : The new WebDAV extension module is fully integrated with the new IIS 7.0 administration interface and configuration store. Per-site Configuration : WebDAV can be enabled at the site-level on IIS 7.0, which differed from IIS 6.0 where...(read more)