Feb 18, 2009
You read that right. All MIX09 attendees will receive a fully functional copy (the real deal) of Windows Web Server 2008 at no cost. That’s nearly a $500 value! Windows Web Server 2008 is a robust and reliable foundation on which to develop, deliver,...
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Tags: Windows Web Server 2008Windows Serverwindows server 2008IISPHP
Feb 17, 2009
The old IIS Extensions train keeps on rollin’. Last month we hit RTW with the Web Platform Installer V1.0 (Why do we call it V1.0? Just wait until you see V2.0) and as you know, Web PI is the one-stop shop for discovering, downloading and installing the...
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Feb 09, 2009
Do you remember the tale of the Windows Server 2008 “Lone Server” ? Maybe it was read to you as a bedtime story as a change from “Mommy, Why Is There a Server in the House?” There he was, this poor Windows Server 2003 server, all alone in a server farm...
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Tags: Windows Web Server 2008Windows Serverwindows server 2008IISLonghornfailover clusteringPowerShellVirtualizationLone ServerR2 (Release Two)Hyper-VWindows Serverver 2008 R2
Jan 16, 2009
We just made the Release Candidate of the IIS PowerShell Snap-in available. A lot of work was done between Tech Preview 2 and now. We focused mainly on augmenting the PowerShell Provider with almost 70 task-oriented cmdlets useful for day-to-day administrative...
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Tags: IIS7PowerShellIIS 6SearchMicrosoft IIScommand lineWindows Serverhow toWMIMVPserverApplication PoolsWindows Server 2008Microsoftsnap-inapplicationWindows PowerShelldownloadIIS
Dec 05, 2008
With the introduction of IIS 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 the game has changed. IIS 7.0 is built using a modular architecture from the ground up. This means two very important things. The first is you only have to install/enable the core set of features...
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Nov 12, 2008
Microsofties are often described as “work hard, play hard” types, and that can be no truer than when applied to the IIS team . Over the last few weeks, we have been out in force to deliver the good word about IIS 7.0 and IIS Extensions at conferences...
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Oct 15, 2008
Very recently, we announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. If you remember, this is a tool that allows you to obtain and install Web server components, development tools and database technologies to implement...
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Oct 02, 2008
If you visited the new Microsoft Web Platform site yesterday, you would have noticed that we’ve performed a radical overhaul of the site, with a fresh new look and articles and media content aggregated from popular external and Microsoft sites. This new...
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