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IIS 7.0 Administration Pack - Version 1.0 Released!

rlucero — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:03:04 GMT

Back on March 18th, during the MIX releases, the IIS team released the IIS 7.0 Administration Pack. About a year ago we released Technical Preview 1 of Admin Pack; the modules have gone through a couple iterations since then.

Admin Pack provides additional features to the IIS Manager UI to make administration of your servers, sites and applications even easier than ever. Here are the highlights:

FastCGI UI Module
- Makes configuration of your FastCGI handler even easier than ever
ASP.NET Authorization Rules and Error Pages UI Modules
- Create and manage all of your ASP.NET auth rules and error pages easily using the new UI Modules
HTTP Request Filtering UI Module
- Manage and configure the complex request filtering rules for your server, sites and applictions with ease
Configuration Editor
- View your web server’s configuration in an easy to navigate UI
- Generate scripts for your configuration changes in managed code, java script and AppCmd
- Use Configuration Search to easily find settings within your server
- Lock attributes and sections easily
Ease of Installation with the Web Platform Installer

Learn more about IIS 7.0 Administration Pack here:

IIS 7.0 Administration Pack at Learn.IIS.net

Download IIS 7.0 Administration Pack:

http://www.iis.net/extensions/AdministrationPack

Frequently Asked Question:

Where is IIS Reports?

IIS Reports is no longer part of the Admin Pack. We’re working on incorporating feedback that has been submitted to us. Stay tuned!

IIS7 Administration Pack and Database Manager Technical Preview 2

rlucero — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:44:00 GMT

Today we have released the IIS7 Administration Pack and Database Manager Customer Technical Preview 2. This is a collection of IIS 7 Manager plug-ins and extensions which we hope that you will find useful.

So, what's special about Technical Preview 2?

Configuration Editor

New locking functionality and visualization of locked items
Ability to set configuration settings at any level. Users can now set application and web site settings within ApplicationHost.config easily.
Bug Fixes

IIS Reports

New Report Types
Extensibility Plug-In points. Users can now write their own custom reports to be shown within IIS Reports.
Bug Fixes

Database Manager

UI Updates
Query Support and Execution
Extensibility Plug-In points. Users can now write their own Database Manager Providers and use Database Manager to administer databases.
Bug Fixes

UI Extensions

Bug Fixes

What do users need to know about Administration Pack Tech Preview 2?

If you've installed Administration Pack technical preview 1, it must be uninstalled prior to installing technical preview 2.

Where do I get Administration Pack Tech Preview 2?

Essential Links:

IIS7 Administration Pack Technical Preview 2 (X86)
Database Manager (X86)

IIS7 Administration Pack Technical Preview 2 (X64)
Database Manager (X64)

IIS7 Administration Pack Forums - Requires IIS.NET account to post

Administration Pack Walk-Through's and Documents

What if I have feedback or bugs for some of these features?

Please, don't hesitate to comment on this blog, CarlosAg's blog or the Forums with feedback, suggestions, comments or questions about the Administration Pack. We love to hear from our customers! If you have something, shout it out and let us know!

IIS7 Administration Pack Technical Preview

rlucero — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:32:00 GMT

Yesterday, we released the IIS7 Administration Pack technical preview. This is a collection of extensions to the IIS7 Administration UI which we hope you the customers will find useful.

Here is a quick rundown of the added features:

ASP.NET Authorization Rules UI
ASP.NET Error Pages UI
Configuration Editor - Check out Script Generation
Database Manager - Manage your Database remotely through the IIS7 UI
FastCGI UI
IIS Reports - Don't want to use log parser? Try out the extensibility features here
Request Filtering - Lock down your server using our new UI module

Please note that this is in fact a technical preview and what we really need from everyone is to download it, try it out and leave some feedback. Post your comments here on our blogs and in our Admin Pack forum.

Essential Links:

IIS7 Administration Pack (x86)
IIS7 Administration Pack (x64)

Informational Step-by-Step Guides for Admin Pack

IIS7 Administration Pack Forum - Requires IIS.NET account to post

You can expect to see more postings around how to use these new features as well as some tips and tricks around them. Remember, we need your feedback to improve!