Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Unified Communications and Internet technologies by Peter Schmidt [MVP].
Microsoft has annonced a new public IIS community portal, containing all IIS related information, such as:
- Blogs from the IIS team
- Whitepapers
- Downloads
- Webcasts
- Videos
- Virtual labs
- FAQs
- Forums
The portal already contains alot of IIS 7 information and videos.
Go to the new portal here.
Chris Crowe has published a great script for locating unused logfile directories.
When running IIS on a server edition you can create multiple web sites and over time you may add and remove sites. When you do this the Log Files are still retained
The following script can be used to find unused log file directories that are no longer associated with any IIS Web Sites – it does not delete them just displays them.
Read more at source.
Microsoft has updated the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide to version 2.1.
This updated version of the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide provides specific recommendations for hardening computers that run Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) in three distinct enterprise environments. The Legacy Client (LC) environment must support older operating systems such as Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98. In the Enterprise Client (EC) environment, Windows 2000 is the earliest version of the Windows operating system in use. The Specialized Security – Limited Functionality (SSLF) environment is one in which concern about security is so great that significant loss of client functionality and manageability is considered an acceptable tradeoff to achieve maximum security.
Guidance about how to harden computers in these three environments is provided for a group of distinct server roles. The guidance and provided tools assume that each server will have a single role, but if you need to combine roles for some of the servers in your environment you can customize the included security templates to create the appropriate combination of services and security options. The referenced server roles in this guide include the following:
• Domain controllers that also provide DNS services
• Infrastructure servers that provide WINS and DHCP services
• File servers
• Print servers
• Internet Information Services (IIS) servers
• Internet Authentication Services (IAS) servers
• Certificate Services servers
• Bastion hostsThis guide is a companion to two other Microsoft publications: the Threats and Countermeasures Guide and the Windows XP Security Guide.
This guide is intended primarily for consultants, security specialists, systems architects, and IT professionals who are responsible for the planning stages of application or infrastructure development and the deployment of computers that run Windows Server 2003 with SP1 in enterprise environments. This guide is not intended for home users.
Download the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide 2.1 Guide here.
Microsoft has published some free webcasts, that will give you a preview of what you can learn at Tech-Ed 2006 in Boston in June 11-16.
These pre-Tech·Ed 2006 webcasts enable IT professionals and developers to explore current and soon-to-be-released Microsoft technologies and evaluate a wide range of products and solutions for today’s IT environment. Get up to speed on Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office “12″, management and operations, security, server infrastructure, and more. We’ll also webcast select breakout sessions live from Boston, so check back soon.
See them at source: Tech-Ed 2006 Webcast Series
David Boschman has done a nice post on how to install IIS 7 in Windows Vista, with screenshots of the whole process.
The key pillars of the IIS 7 release are:
- Unified platform delivering a single, consistent developer and administrator model for Web solutions.
- Enhanced security and smaller, independent components to reduce attack surface.
- Flexible extensibility to enable customization and extension.
- Simplified problem resolution through powerful diagnostic and troubleshooting.
Read it at source.
The TechNet Magazine (May-June 2006) included an article:
“Inside Microsoft.com Moving Microsoft Update Downloads to x64”
about why the Microsoft.com (MSCOM) Ops. team moved the Windows Update site to x64.
The MSCOM Ops blog has also posted a response:
“User Mode or Kernel Mode…Which Caching Method Did We Use” to the article.
Read the article here at TechNet.
