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September IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and happenings in the IIS community over the past month, be sure to check out the September edition of the IIS Community Newsletter:
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DNS 101
The Internet is still a mystery to many people. The goal of this post is to explain the Domain Name System (DNS) in simple terms to help more people gain an understanding. The Internet is a worldwide network of computers and devices that share information. In this network all devices and resources are accessed by IP addresses. The simplicity of this network isn’t very user friendly, though, because in order to access your favorite web site you would have to remember its IP address.
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IIS8 Memory Improvements
There is a lot of buzz in the Internet Information Services (IIS) community about IIS 8, the version of IIS that is included with Windows Server 2012. While there are plenty of new features in IIS 8, for this writing I am going to focus on the memory improvements that you will see for the application pools. Memory is a key resource on an IIS server as it is often the first limiting factor if you planned your CPU and disk requirements appropriately.
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Configuration files for Internet Information Services
I continue to see questions and confusion about the configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS). I hope to clear up some of the confusion by the time you have finished reading this post.