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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.