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Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…

bills — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:13:45 GMT

Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new IIS7 Extension, the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger. A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10. We almost made it! We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today. Check them out here:

http://www.iis.net/getstarted

Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding a cool demo for each of the reasons to show the features in action. Be sure to check back soon!

New IIS7 extensions available for download!

bills — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:22:10 GMT

One of the best parts of being on the IIS team is shipping great software. First there was IIS7, now you can expect to see lots of great extensions for the best Web server in the world that plug-in seamlessly using the new IIS7 extensibility model. When IIS7 launched, we also shipped several new free extensions which I linked to in my last post. Now we're at it again...the past few weeks we've shipped several more ultra-cool modules free for download. Check out:

Administration Pack for IIS7

This technical preview adds seven new administration features to IIS Manager with some never-seen-before administration capabilities, including:

Database manager, which provides built-in SQL Server management, including the ability to create, delete and edit tables and indexes, manage stored procedures and execute custom queries (just like sql query analyzer). Best of all, it is fully integrated into IIS manager, remotes through the IIS Manager administration services (over HTTP/SSL), and works for local administrators and delegated users alike.

IIS reports, which provides built-in reports that provide fancy charts and HTML reports of your log file data (like popular URLs, status code, user agent, etc. etc.) it let's you filter by date range, print reports or save them to an archive. As a built-in IIS Manager module, it remotes over HTTP/SSL, and works great for delegated as well as local administrators.

Configuration Editor, which provides built-in support for editing ALL configuration sections through a single configuration feature. This power toy is an advanced feature which can even auto-generate scripts based on your configuration changes!

Request Filtering UI, which provides support for the IIS7 built-in request filtering feature.

FastCGI UI, which provides support for the editing the all new built-in <fastCGI> feature which allows for fast and reliable hosting of open source frameworks like PHP.

.NET Authorization rules editor, which allows you to manage the ASP.NET <authorization> section via the IIS manager tool. Don't confuse this with the all-new IIS7 URLauthorization feature.

.NET Errors configuration editor, which allows you to manage the ASP.NET custom errors feature <customErrors>. Don't confuse this with the all-new IIS7 httpErrors feature.

You can download the Administration pack (x86) and (x64) today! Check out the learn.iis.net chapter for more information on each feature.

IIS7 Media Pack Bit Rate Throttling Module

This cool feature is now available in final release form and provides intelligent progressive download of rich media content (audio and video files) for all the popular types including WMV, flash video, quicktime, MP4, and more! If you have media on your Web site, or want to throttle downloads of your large files, this is a must have feature. Scott Hanselman has an awesome post on this feature on his blog.

You can download the Bit Rate throttling module (x86) and (x64) today! Check out the learn.iis.net chapter on media serving for more information!

WebDAV for IIS7

This cool feature actually shipped at the same time as IIS7, but I somehow forgot to link to it. WebDAV provides an all-new implementation of this HTTP standards way of publishing files over HTTP. Read more about WebDAV in Robert's post here.

You can download the WebDAV module (x86) and (x64) today! Check out the learn.iis.net chapter for more information on using WebDAV.

What can I say, the IIS team rocks. ;)

Good Reading... 8/14/2007

bills — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:52:23 GMT

I haven't been able to write for a few weeks due to some time off and other "distractions". (This time of year at Microsoft is especially busy for managers as we not only do all of normal work needed to develop software, but also have to deal with budgeting, performance reviews, and vacation schedules).

Over the past few weeks there have been some good articles published, so I thought I would make up for my lack of writing time by passing along a few of the interesting things I've read lately.

Netcraft madness

First, Netcraft published their August Web Server survey which shows IIS continuing to gain ground versus Apache, with another 1.4% gain for Windows/IIS, and a 1.7% slip for Apache. The amount of press pickup on this report was amazing, with a lot of positive news for IIS, including several mentions about the upcoming Server release of IIS7:

As all of these articles will point out that IIS is not the only Web server gaining market share, lighthttp has been gaining grown as has Google's front end server (which was previously reported as Apache). Still, it is great to see IIS growing it's share on the Internet and I have no doubt that IIS7 will help the momentum.

WordPress authentication integration with IIS7

WordPress is one of the most popular PHP-based blogging engines in the world, and Mike just built a cool extension for WordPress that allows for really deep integration with IIS7. If you've seen any of the integrated pipeline demos of IIS7 where we show ASP.NET Forms authentication support for all types of content (including PHP applications), and the administration power that IIS7 adds, with built-in support for managing users and roles, you have an idea just how cool this is. Read all about it on Mike's blog.

IIS7 Media Pack features and comparison with Windows Media Server

Chris Knowlton published a great post that reveals some of the features you can expect to see with the upcoming IIS7 Media Pack release and how they compare to Windows Media Server. We're preparing for the first Technical Preview of this Media Pack and still have a few surprises in store. I'm really excited for it to debut as I think it will be a really powerful addition to IIS.

New IIS Evangelist!

I was excited to hear that Drew Robbins was hired into the IIS evangelist role that I posted about a while back. He has been a Developer Evangelist for quite some time and has created quite a name for himself. I look forward to working with Drew!

How to create a site, app or virtual directory in IIS7?

This is probably the most common task an IIS administrator may have, and also one of the most frequently asked questions I see. Mike put together a great post that explains the Site/App/VDir model in IIS7 and provides sample cmd-line steps for how to create and manage them.

Understanding IIS7 configuration paths

One of the most complex pieces of IIS7 is the new configuration system. While it is a world above the Metabase, it does take some time to get used to. Mike published a great blog post on the new configuration system that explains how configuration paths work.