BillS IIS Blog

If you’ve ever tried to find information on how to install a particular IIS7 feature, or how to configure it using the IIS Manager tool, AppCmd.exe, the new Microsoft.Web.Administration interface or WMI provider, this post is for you. 

Choices abound for those looking for a place to run Web applications on Windows.  The purpose of this blog post is to show a quick walkthrough of how to setup your first Windows computer in the cloud on Amazon EC2.  If you’re already familiar with hosting and the cloud, skip the next few paragraphs. 

Starting up a Web business, especially in this economy, isn’t easy.  Microsoft wants to make it easier.  A few weeks ago we announced Microsoft BizSpark, a new program specifically for Web start-ups which makes it very easy to get access to the latest versions of Windows, SQL, Visual Studio – with full Microsoft support – very easy and absolutely free to get started! 

I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI).  **Update 1/20/2009 - the final v1.0 release is now available!**

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. 

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 IIS7 Extension, the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger.  A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10.  We almost made it!  We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today.  Check them out here:

I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions