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Microsoft WebsiteSpark

Own a Web development or design business with ten or fewer employees needing low cost options for software, support, training, and connections to a variety of business opportunities? If so, you should check out Microsoft WebsiteSpark ; Microsoft’s program...

Search Engine Optimization for Beginners

Want to help your site achieve higher rankings in the organic listings returned by popular search engines like Bing and Google? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the answer. SEO techniques and practices are used to help search engines understand what...

Check Out PHP on IIS 7

Making PHP applications run efficiently and reliably on IIS 7 is one of our key goals. The IIS team is working with Zend to optimize the performance of PHP on IIS 7 and the results have been remarkable. In addition to performance improvements to PHP and...

The Services Behind Internet Information Services 7.0

What are Windows services? In a nutshell, they are programs that run in the background performing core operating system functions usually without interaction from users. IIS 7 contains a complementary set of Windows services that work in concert to provide...

IIS 7.0 Application Pools

Application pools, URLs or groups of URLs served by one set of worker processes, have many benefits. They set boundaries that contain applications an prevent them from affecting applications outside of the pool. So if one application fails it won't affect...

IIS 7.0 HTTP Request Processing

Here's a simplified diagram outlining the steps IIS takes to process HTTP requests.  

IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page

Here's a look at the options available from the IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page

IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Hierarchy

Here's a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store:  

Protection from SQL Injection

I just finished watching a short video on YouTube of a 13-year-old kid showing people how to hack into a retail Web site. It only took him a couple of minutes and one simple technique to gain access to their customers’ personal information—including...

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I work on documentation for IIS and related technologies. I am new to the IIS team and this is my first opportunity to work on Server technologies and write for an IT Professional audience.

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