New IIS Extensions Released
The IIS team is pleased to announce the final release of four IIS extensions that were previously available as release candidates. These releases are fully supported and we encourage all customers using pre-release versions to move to the final release versions.
Application Initialization for IIS 7.5
Application Initialization 1.0 for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to configure IIS to proactively perform initialization tasks for one or more web applications. While an application is being initialized, IIS can also be configured to return an alternate response such as static content as a placeholder or "splash page" until an application has completed its initialization tasks.
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Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7/7.5
The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level.
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Microsoft Web Deploy V3
Web Deploy simplifies the deployment of Web applications and Web sites to IIS servers. It also, facilitates migration of IIS servers from older version to newer versions. Web Deploy V3 adds support for deployment and migration to IIS 8.0 and Azure Websites. It also adds support for incremental database publishing using SQL DACFX framework. Other new features include automatic server side backup of web sites, PowerShell cmdlets.
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Windows Cache Extension 1.3 for PHP 5.4
Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This latest version of the Windows Cache Extension has been written and tested for use with PHP 5.4.
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