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Start-up your Web business with Microsoft BizSpark
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!
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Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!
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!**
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ASP.NET supported on Server Core - Windows Server 2008 R2
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.
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Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…
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:
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IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download
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Find New IIS7 Extensions at http://www.iis.net/extensions/
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions
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IIS7 URL Rewrite Extension is finished – download now!
I’m excited to announce that the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is finished and available for download. For more information on some last minute features we added, and how to download it, see Ruslan’s blog post here: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/11/10/url-rewrite-module-release-to-web.aspx
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Apache Emulation for IIS by Helicon Tech
The list of modules currently supported is quite impressive, including:
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IIS’ Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 Released
The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool.
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IIS7 Smooth Streaming Announced in Partnership with Akamai
I am excited to announce an innovative new IIS7 feature called “IIS Smooth Streaming”, which will be available as a free IIS7 extension when released, with a public beta planned for early next year. Read John’s post (IIS Media PM) about Smooth Streaming and feature/benefits you can expect to see. As part of the announcement, we’re pleased to have Smooth Streaming available first through the world’s biggest content delivery network provider – Akamai. Having a world-class partner like Akamai is a huge boost for this feature and ensures it will meet the demands of all customers big and small upon final release. Akamai put up a demo site of Smooth Streaming in action, check it out at http://smoothHD.com and tell us what you think!
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Quick Install of the World’s Most Popular Web Applications on IIS7
A few weeks ago I announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. Web PI makes it easy to obtain and install the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express and tons of other great IIS and other platform extensions in a single place. The Microsoft Web Platform provides everything you need to develop, deploy, host and operate powerful Web applications.
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How to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin working with IIS7 and Windows 2008
Almost every popular PHP app that you may want to run on IIS7 requires MySQL. I just ran across a couple of really great articles which provide step by step instructions for how to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin running.
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Community Links 10/11/2008: URL Rewrite, ASP.NET, Extensibility, Diagnostics, WordPress
Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading:
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Where to download and buy IIS7 and Windows 2008
I've heard several people ask where to buy IIS7 and Windows 2008. First, if you want to download and try before you buy, Microsoft has made Windows 2008 trial editions available, with just a few clicks and a live ID you can download them today.
If you are looking for the lowest cost, fully-featured Web server for the internet, look no further than Windows Web Server 2008, which is the enhanced version of Windows server specifically built for internet Web sites. It supports the full hardware specs of Standard Server (4 proc and 32GB RAM), has the full IIS7 Web Server feature-set, supports SharePoint and Windows Media Services, and even allows for local SQL Server installs to support Web applications. To compare it to other Windows 2008 editions, go here.
If you are ready to buy, Windows Web Server 2008 is available for purchase online and through all of the major OEMs. If you are a do-it-yourself kind of guy, check out NewEgg's listing for an OEM license here for $349, or purchase the full retail copy on Amazon for $429.
Once you've got Windows 2008 Web server installed on your PC/server, be sure to download the Microsoft Web Platform Installer to help you get IIS7, ASP.NET, SQL Server and even Visual Web Developer Express installed quickly!
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Fast Download and Install of Microsoft's Web Stack: IIS7, ASP.NET, SQL Express, Visual Web Developer, and more...
Let's face it, getting Microsoft's Web server, framework and tools installed is much more painful than it should be. Visit 10 different web sites, download a dozen different packages, install them one at a time, and maybe in a few hours you are ready to get started. And then once you've got the stack installed, staying up to date and discovering new extensions is even more difficult. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just go to one place and get the whole stack, and stay up to date?
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New IIS7 Releases: URL Rewrite, Application Routing and Load Balancing, and PowerShell Cmd-lets
In last a few weeks, the IIS team has released 3 IIS extensions updates:
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How to Migrate from IIS 6 to IIS 7
With so many cool new capabilities in IIS7, and even more new features coming out all the time, it's no wonder you want to move to IIS7. But you work for The Man, and everyone knows The Man wants ROI. He can't just let you go willy-nilly and adopt every cool new technology that hits the street. After all, He has a business to run. And that business currently runs on IIS 6. And he's paid you a lot of money (ok, not that much) to write the code, test the apps, deploy the servers, and keep those HTML pumping machines up and running 24x7x365. And things are running well, right? When was the last time you had to worry about metabase corruption? Or been forced to run IISRESET? Or been paged in the middle of the night with some glorious server 500 error and (of course) the developer who wrote the code is no where to be found?
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How to manage IIS7 remotely from Windows Vista
I also ran across this great video posted on Channel9 by Drew Robbins showing off the new IIS7 Admin Extensions - all of which will work remotely once you've got the setup described above!
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DiscountASP.NET offers beta IIS Manager extensions
DiscountASP.NET - a great low-cost Windows/IIS7 hosting provider - has agreed to offer the current Admin Pack and Database Manager extensions for "IIS Manager" free to their customers. I connected up to their test server from my home PC, via my cable modem connection, and was amazed at the performance - it is really very cool to manage a remote SQL Server, from inside IIS Manager, with a secure, delegated connection.
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Real World Performance Data on IIS7
Interested in knowing what kind of performance gains you can expect from IIS7? The Microsoft.com operations folks have put together a great summary of their real-world performance data. The short story is: IIS7 servers handle 31% more requests per second than their IIS6 peers, at a slightly higher CPU rate. For all the gory details, read the Microsoft.com blog!
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How to install ASP.NET 1.1 with IIS7 on Vista and Windows 2008
ASP.NET 2.0 (3.0 and 3.5) are easy to install with Windows Vista and Windows 2008 - just install the ASP.NET component located under IIS->Word Wide Web Services->Application Development Features. You can find this set of components in Windows 2008 by clicking Start, and click Server Manager. Expand the left-hand treeview in Server Manager and click Manage Roles, and then Web Server (IIS). In the right-hand pane look for an option that says Add Role Services. If you're on Windows Vista, click Start, click Control Panel, click Programs, and then Windows Features. Look for the following tree of features under Internet Information Services (IIS):
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How to get new features for IIS7
If you've been following http://blogs.iis.net/ or http://www.iis.net/downloads/ lately you've probably noticed a lot of IIS software releases coming out with lots of odd acronyms... CTPs, GoLive releases, RTWs. You may wonder: what are these releases, and how do they compare to IIS in the past? For anyone who has been an IIS customer for a while, it may seem quite foreign to see IIS features coming out which are not attached to an OS release.
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How to Script / Automate IIS7 Configuration (without writing code)
I hear this question a lot in the http://forums.iis.net/, and thanks to Carlos and team's rocking Configuration Editor, figuring this out on your own is a breeze. Here is how you can generate code for ANY IIS7 configuration change, without writing a line yourself.
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URL Rewrite module for IIS7
One of the most hotly requested features for IIS is now available! Yesterday we shipped the first technical preview of a new URLrewrite module for IIS7. It is free for all IIS7 users and available for download x86 and x64. Thomas and Carlos have blogged about many of the details already, so be sure and check their posts out. Ruslan also posted a bunch of really great walkthroughs on IIS7, which you can check out here, including:
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SQL Injection Attacks on IIS Web Servers
You may have seen recent reports that have surfaced stating that web sites running on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 have been compromised. These reports allude to a possible vulnerability in IIS or issues related to Security Advisory 951306 which was released last week.
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Windows Web Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005
One of the things I'm most excited about Windows Server 2008 is the new Web-focused version of Windows called Windows Web Server 2008. It is a special, low-priced version of Windows (only $469 retail, half the price of Standard edition and available anywhere Windows Server is sold) that is focused exclusively on Internet-based Web serving.
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MTS 2008 - IIS7 Session
In an hour or so I will be on stage at the Microsoft Technology Summit. I think I've presented every year since they started MTS - a small conference here in Redmond for technology influentials, particularly those of competitive platforms. It's always one of the most enjoyable conferences of the year for me as you get to hear a wide variety of perspectives.
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How to add mime types with IIS7 Web.config
Ever wanted to add a custom mime type to your Web server? I ran into this issue the other day when I tried to serve up .mp4 files from my Web server and duh, I got this error:
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How to backup/restore IIS7 configuration
Won's recent post on possible configuration corruption caused by OneCare/Forefront reminded me of something that every IIS7 customer should know about: how to backup and restore IIS7 configuration!
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How to enable directory browsing with IIS7 web.config
IIS7 includes an all-new distributed configuration option, which allows for IIS7 configuration to be stored in web.config files, along with asp.net configuration, to be deployed with your content. This makes transferring IIS7 configuration from your Vista PC to your hosted server as easy as copying files! Read more about this in the Delegating Configuration section of http://learn.IIS.net
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How to (un)block directories with IIS7 web.config
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How to add a default document with IIS7 web.config
IIS7 includes an all-new distributed configuration option, which allows for IIS7 configuration to be stored in web.config files, along with asp.net configuration, to be deployed with your content. This makes transferring IIS7 configuration from your development box to your hosted server as easy as file copy! Read more about this in the Delegating Configuration section of http://learn.IIS.net
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New IIS7 extensions available for download!
One of the best parts of being on the IIS team is shipping great software. First there was IIS7, now you can expect to see lots of great extensions for the best Web server in the world that plug-in seamlessly using the new IIS7 extensibility model. When IIS7 launched, we also shipped several new free extensions which I linked to in my last post. Now we're at it again...the past few weeks we've shipped several more ultra-cool modules free for download. Check out:
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Windows 2008 and IIS7 Now Available
Today marks the official product launch of Windows 2008 and IIS7, a capstone to 5 years of engineering work to create the best Web server on the planet. IIS7 is the foundation of Microsoft's Web platform, and offers many exciting new advancements in Web serving technology:
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IIS7 is finished
After 4+ years of development, the IIS7 project is now complete. Today we signed off on the final build of Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1, both of which include our final build of IIS7.