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Download Windows Media Services (WMS) for Windows Server 2008 June CTP
I am pleased to announce that Windows Media Services (WMS) package for Windows Server 2008 June CTP is now live! With this package, WMS is now supported on Web SKU (Windows Web Server 2008) as well. This package is available for all beta participants who have access to the June CTP.
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Internet, Meet IIS7
First Netcraft report of IIS7:
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IIS7 on Server Core - June CTP build released!
I'm excited to announce that a new build of IIS7 and Windows 2008 Server is available for testing by Beta testers. This build includes updates and fixes made since the Beta 3 release earlier this year, and includes the previously announced IIS7 on Server Core configuration. Important note: This build is released as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) release, and has not been tested to the degree that we test full Beta or Release Candidate builds, so use at your own risk!
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BlueDragon/CFML : an awesome IIS7 extensibility story
I've blogged a few times about the extensibility of IIS7, but here is a real world example that provides a really concrete idea of the real possibilities: Vince Bonfanti just announced end-to-end BlueDragon/CFML integration with IIS7 including core server, configuration, and administration tool integration!
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More free IIS7 Web hosting offers hit the Web
Since my last post introducing the bleeding edge IIS7 hosters who started offering free hosting on Beta 3, several new Web hosters joined the mix, including gate.com, parking.ru and myhosting.com who went live today! If you're looking for a free Web site and want to check out the new features of IIS7, sign up with one of these hosters now! The complete list of hosters can be found on the goLive page.
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www.Microsoft.com is live on IIS7 beta 3 - are you?
The www.Microsoft.com guys have been running IIS7 on some of their servers since early beta days, but I was excited to get an email this week which announced that they are running IIS7 on all of their servers! (except for a single box which they use to do comparative studies with).
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TechEd Video: IIS7 Hosting and Server Core
A new video has been posted up on the Virtual TechEd site called the IIS7 Customer Experience, featuring Mario Juarez, Eric Woersching, Jess Coburn and Carlos Caneja.
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Catalyst Software Publishes In-depth IIS7 Whitepaper for .NET Developers
Scott Seely just published a 30 page whitepaper on IIS7. It includes a great overview of many of the new IIS7 features and architecture, along with lots of great code samples for .NET developers. This is especially helpful if you're looking for more information on .NET integration with IIS7 and how to take advantage of the new integrated HTTP pipeline.
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IIS7 on Server Core
Today at TechEd 2007, Bob Muglia announced the availability of IIS7 on Server Core in Windows 2008 Server, starting with the upcoming CTP and RC1 releases. We've added IIS7 on Server Core as a result of a lot of customer demand to make it available on the lowest footprint Windows server ever. See Microsoft's PressPass for what Bill Laing has to say about this announcement.
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IIS7 @ TechEd 2007
Today marks the start of TechEd 2007 in Orlando, FL. Eight brave IIS team members are braving the sun and are there with a record-setting 12,000 other people learning about the latest Microsoft technologies. This is a very big year for IIS at TechEd, and we have lots of goodies for those of you who are there. For anyone who isn't there, we plan on posting our sessions up on IIS.net in the future, so watch out for them!
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Now Hiring on the IIS Team @ Microsoft
James posted in his blog an exciting new opportunity I can't pass up talking about: IIS Evangelist. This key position provides the right person an opportunity to work closely with the product team to ship IIS7 to the world later this year and make it the world's most popular Web server. If you love IIS7, and want to spend your days (and some nights! :)) hanging out with the product team, traveling the world talking about IIS and helping customers get IIS7 deployed, contact him. I should also mention, the IIS team is hiring Program Managers, Developers, and Testers as well! If you want to join this elite Microsoft crew in designing, coding, testing and shipping the Web infrastructure that runs the internet, contact me.