Contents tagged with windows server 2008
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EMC Support for the SMB 3.0 Protocol – the Future of Storage Protocols
One of the key issues this blog has covered recently is the transformation of storage. Microsoft is focused on helping customers control the costs of storage, whether by using industry-standard hardware or simplifying existing hardware infrastructure. To that end we have made significant investments in the SMB 3.0 protocol for file-based storage. This helps customers use existing network infrastructure to achieve Fibre Channel-like performance, regardless of the underlying storage subsystem.
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Deployment: Windows Firewall and Group Policy
General Deployment information Because I support the Windows Firewall I often get asked for guidance on deploying it. David Bishop wrote a nice white paper on deploying the Windows Firewall so I won’t repeat it all here but this is my go to link when...(read more)
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Understanding IPv6, 3rd Edition has been published!
I recently heard from Joe Davies that the 3rd edition of his Understanding IPv6 book is available! This edition builds on the treasure trove of information found in Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition, which included updates for Windows Vista...(read more)
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Now Customers Can Actually Locate Your Resources with URL Rewriter 2.0 RTW
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Improve Web User Experience with IIS SEO Toolkit RTW and IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RC
Remember the scene in Diehard when he shoots the glass? That was cool. What’s even cooler is now you can fine tune your Web site for the search engine, thus improving the experience for your Web users.
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Increase Web Application Scalability and Reliability with ARR 2.0 RTW
Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 RTW.
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Provide a Better Web Site Experience with Faster Response Times
Have you ever hummed the Jeopardy theme song while waiting for a Web site to download - even on a high-speed Internet connection? Sometimes the problem is OUT of your control – whether it is an Internet traffic jam, scheduled maintenance, or some other unknown cause for a delay in receiving your request to view the latest on what the stock market is doing. But sometimes the problem is IN your control – such as pre-loading worker processes at the start of the Web server or when Overlapped Recycling occurs. As a IT Pro in charge of Web sites, you probably want to do everything you can on your side to make those delays as few as possible to your end-users. Like an easy-bake oven, you can now ‘Warm-Up’ your Web site to the proper ‘temperature’ before serving your customers.
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Six Ways to Help Customers Extend their Web Sites
· IIS Application Request Routing 2.0 RC adds support to enhance disk based cache and cache proxy for content delivery networks while increasing Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests.
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Download the New Windows Cache Extension for PHP Beta
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Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta
