Won Yoo's Blog Posts

Application Request Routing Release Candidate (RC) has been released

Today, IIS team has made the Application Request Routing (ARR) RC for IIS 7 available for download . This is the last major milestone release before the Release To Web (RTW) release. In addition to the feature improvements based on customer feedback,...

Video walk-through for Application Request Routing (ARR)

A couple of weeks ago, I put together a video walk-through of Application Request Routing . The video is about 45 minutes long and it highlights the key features and scenarios that were included in CTP1 release which can be downloaded from: Application...

Relationship between Application Request Routing and URL Rewrite modules

As most of you know by now, Application Request Routing (ARR) CTP1 was released in early July. (Download x86 here and x64 here . Support is available via this forum.) ARR relies on the URL Rewrite module for inspecting the incoming HTTP requests and making...

IIS Extensions and servicing

This week, IIS team has released two servicing patches for the following IIS Extensions: FTP for IIS 7.0 (KB955136) x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f23f366f-5d1c-4390-934c-d5e9c3057661&DisplayLang=en x64: http://www.microsoft...

SSL off-loading in Application Request Routing

One of the features that has not been called out explicitly in Application Request Routing (ARR) documentations is SSL off-loading. This is a feature in which the communications between the clients and the ARR server are done via SSL while the communications...

Application Request Routing (ARR) as a reverse proxy?

I have been asked if Application Request Routing (ARR) can be used as a reverse proxy - and the answer is YES! As you may know, ARR depends on URL rewrite module to inspect the incoming requests and determine which server group the request should be routed...

Application Request Routing CTP1 has been released.

Application Request Routing (ARR) was just released yesterday (July 2, 08) and I wanted to highlight some of the core scenarios that the CTP1 release enables. (You can get more information on ARR and helpful walkthroughs here .) 3 tier deployment architecture...

Application Request Routing (ARR) CTP1 and PowerShell Provider CTP2 modules are released.

Today, we are excited to announce two module releases for IIS7: Application Request Routing (ARR) CTP1 PowerShell Provider CTP2 Application Request Routing: Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP...

Servicing via CBS (component based servicing)

In Vista and Windows Server 2008, the operating system is made up of components. In a simplest sense, a component is a small grouping of files based on a feature area, functionality, and reusability. A manifest defines how the files are grouped in a component...

ApplicationHost.config file getting corrupted when OneCare or Forefront is running?

We have seen some reported cases when applicationHost.config file is getting corrupted when OneCare or Forefront is running on the same machine. By "corruption" I mean the XML is malformed is you may get an error: Error: Configuration file is not well...

Lowering administration overhead with granular servicing of IIS modules (Part 1)

IIS 7.0 is made up of more than 40 separate feature modules. Each feature module can be installed independently, and because only the installed modules need to be managed, it helps to reduce the attack surface of the server and the administration overhead...

Section level encryption of ASP.NET settings in IIS 7

As you know, ASP.NET supports section level encryption for protecting its configuration. It supports both RSA, which is default, and DPAPI out of the box and it also provides a way to use a custom protection provider. (Click here for more information...

Introduction

My name is Won Yoo and I am a program manager in IIS team. I've been with Microsoft for about 4 years. I joined the IIS team about a month ago and I work on the core server. One feature area that I own is integrated pipeline which is pretty interesting...

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