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Workaround: Running ASP.NET 1.1 on Vista SP2/WS08 SP2

Many of you have probably read the article on how to install ASP.NET 1.1 on IIS7 on Vista and WS08 (The article can be found at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/472/how-to-install-aspnet-11-with-iis7-on-vista-and-windows-2008/ ). While above works great...

Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2

Not sure if anyone has seen this, but yesterday, Microsoft posted the full list of all Hotfixes (QFEs) and Security updates that have been rolled into Vista SP2. The list can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center at http://www.microsoft.com...

Vista/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) RC

In March, Vista/Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC was made public. (See my blog post on SP2 Beta release here ). From the IIS perspective, since the SP2 Beta release, we have been focusing on stability and reliability. So there aren't any significant functional...

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2 for IIS7 Beta 1 has been released.

Following the ARRv1 RTW release last month, the ARR team has released ARRv2 Beta1 release today. (The "official" announcement can be found here .) ARRv2 is an incremental release that has all the features of ARRv1, but we added a support for disk cache...

Benefits of host name affinity provider in ARRv1 RTW

As you know, ARRv1 has RTW'ed last week. Download the RTW release from: Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7 x86 Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7 x64 One of the features that we have added between ARRv1 RC...

The Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 1 for IIS7 has been released to web (RTW).

This is the official release for ARR Version 1 for IIS7 and it is now fully supported by Microsoft Support . Overview: ARR Version 1 for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server...

Vista/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

In December 2008, Vista/Windows Server 2008 SP2 beta was made public. Yes, it is the first service pack for Windows Server 2008, but it is named SP2 since Windows Server 2008 RTM is really Vista SP1. In this blog post, I will high light some of the key...

Meaning of "minimum servers" in Application Request Routing

The product team is currently working on ARRv1 RTW and online help, in addition to the walkthroughs , will be part of this release effort. That said, it has come to my attention that the "minimum servers" (available on Health Test page) has not been documented...

Shared configuration and password expiration.

Most of you have probably heard of shared configuration. It is a simple and convenient way to centralize IIS configuration among multiple IIS instances. (More info on shared configuration can be found here .) A step in setting up shared configuration...

Setting up Shared configuration on IIS 7.0

Problem: When IIS 7.0 server is configured to work in shared configuration mode then configuration files are stored on a file share. This configuration is recommended for setting up web farms. But in case file share goes offline, the whole set up fails...

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...

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