BillS IIS Blog
Bill's blog on IIS and the Microsoft Web Platform
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IIS7 in the Community...11/7/2007
The IIS7 community is growing!A0 There have been a number of really cool things going on in the community around IIS7.A0 Here are some of my favorites:A0
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Microsoft Announces Interoperability Improvements for PHP and Microsoft technologies
Last year at ZendCon 2006, I was invited to be a part of the Microsoft and Zend announcement initiating technical collaboration with the PHP community to significantly enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has delivered a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI Extension which enables IIS to much more effectively host PHP applications.
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FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) for IIS7 RC0 Released!
If you're looking for the FPSE extensions for your Vista or Windows 2008 Server and IIS7, look no further than DownloadCenter. The team just released an updated package with support for installing on x64 (note: the FPSE extensions themselves have no been ported to 64-bit. They will, however, install on an x64 machine and run fine with 32bit AppPools.)
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TechNet Radio Interview on IIS7 w/ Bill Staples
I did a TechNet radio interview last week and it is now published on the Web. It was a pretty fun interview and we covered a lot of ground including a brief history of IIS and my involvement with the product, some some of the behind the scenes development of IIS7 (project started more than 4 years ago!), my favorite features (so hard to choose!) and my thoughts on the future of the Web and IIS. Enjoy!
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October is IIS7 Month - Upcoming Webcasts by the IIS7 Product Team
I'm really excited for next week, because October 1st is the first day of Web month! Isaac Roybal, a member of the IIS marketing team, has planned a whole series of Webcasts on IIS7 that we'll be doing throughout the month to get you ready for the final release. Check out these sessions and register today!
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IIS7 Patch for Windows Vista fixes CGI/PHP applications that send multiple response headers
Today we released a patch for IIS7 in Windows Vista that addresses an issue we've seen with CGI applications (especially PHP applications that use the built-in CGI component).A0 The typical symptom is an application that runs using CGI and is unable to support multiple "cookies" for authentication or personalization.A0
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IIS6 Metabase Property to IIS7 Configuration Mapping
Here is some useful documentation I stumbled upon which may be of interest. If you're ever wondering "where did that IIS6 metabase property go?" as you stare at the applicationHost.config or web.config file, look no further than this MSDN documentation for a complete mapping: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa347565.aspx
Note: you may need to use this document in conjunction with the schema files in \windows\system32\inetsrv\config\schema in order to know where the configuration section lives, what type it is, defaults etc.
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IIS.NET Customer Spotlights: People Like You Sharing Stories about IIS7
For a while I've been wanting a place on the http://iis.net/ site where we can share stories about some of the cool things people do with IIS.A0 I'm excited to announce that the Customer Spotlight portal is now live on IIS.net, with five customers debuting with this initial release.A0 We'll be adding customer spotlight pages each month with new customer stories to tell.A0 Do you have an IIS7 story you'd like to share?A0 Send me your story.A0
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Announcing Go Live Beta of FastCGI Extension for PHP hosting on IIS5.1/IIS6.0
Just over ten months ago I announced a technical collaboration agreement between Microsoft, Zend and the PHP community to enable fast and reliable hosting of PHP on Windows and IIS.A0 Since then, more than 14,000 people have downloaded the Technical Preview release!A0 I'm pleased to say that today we make another step forward with that work by announcing the availability of the FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 with a free GoLive Beta release.A0
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Free IIS7 Online Training
A few months ago the IIS team did a quick tour of Europe, speaking in various cities and countries in an all-day IIS conference specifically geared toward training people on IIS7. Luckily, the good people of Poland decided to record and publish the training for everyone to use. Check out the sessions below to watch Brett Hill and Isaac Roybal present IIS7. Here is a list of all the sessions: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/result_search.aspx?event=69&x=13&y=2