Nov 24, 2008
I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, IIS News Item, Developers, Administrators, Extensions, Deployment
Nov 24, 2008
In case you haven’t already heard the news, ASP.NET will now be enabled on Windows Server Core starting with Windows Server 2008 R2. If you're not familiar with Server Core, it is a low footprint Server installation option that lays down just the...
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Nov 20, 2008
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...
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Nov 13, 2008
I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension! ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level...
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Nov 11, 2008
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, PHP, Extensibility, IIS News Item, Media, FastCGI, Administrators, Configuration, Extensions, Security, URL Rewrite, Deployment
Oct 30, 2008
The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool . MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going...
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Oct 15, 2008
A few weeks ago I announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. Web PI makes it easy to obtain and install the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express and tons of...
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Oct 06, 2008
I've heard several people ask where to buy IIS7 and Windows 2008. First, if you want to download and try before you buy, Microsoft has made Windows 2008 trial editions available, with just a few clicks and a live ID you can download them today. If you...
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