SAPIEN Technologies has lanuched www.SearchScripting.com, a search engine dedicated to find scripts on the Internet. It’s actually pretty cool, try doing a search for IIS and see all the scripting resources and examples for IIS.
Quote from SAPIENs blog:
We’ve been stealthily working on a new project, which is now online in beta form at www.SearchScripting.com. It’s essentially a search engine focused entirely on scripting topics; right now, we’ve loaded it with hand-selected sites related to Windows administrative scripting. We’ve built it to support other scripting technologies, but want to get some feedback on folks who are using it so we can fine-tune stuff before we go wild with the content we’re crawling. Our theory with this site is that mainstream sites (Google, MSN, and what-have-you) make it tough to get really specific search results for scripting, because you get a lot of “noise” results. We’ve had our engine crawl only hand-selected sites that contain scripts, tutorials, reference materials, and so forth, and implemented a query language that allows you to be VERY specific about what you’re looking for. The system then provides ranked results, tells you what site each result came from, what type of site that is (a blog, reference, etc), and even (like Google) lets you view cached pages in case the original isn’t available.
Do you own searches at www.SearchScripting.com
Last week Microsoft released the latest build (5536) and now it’s made available for download for all. The ISO can be downloaded with a special download manager from Akamai. But hurry up, they will close at 100,000 downloads!
After downloading, please install and test the build as soon as possible. Most importantly, if there is a crash, hang, or error – please make sure that you send the information back to us using the built-in Windows Error Reporting technology (a dialog box will display automatically). Sending this information is essential to helping us improve the overall quality of Windows Vista – and collecting this information is the primary purpose of distributing this pre-RC1 release.
Once you complete the download you must burn the ISO file to a DVD.
Microsoft has partnered with Akamai Technologies to provide a Download Manager to help you get the ISO file for Windows Vista pre-RC1. This Akamai Download Manager lets you pause, resume, and stop the download of the file. You may be prompted to accept a signed ActiveX control or Java™ applet in your browser. These have been signed by “Akamai Technologies, Inc.” and verified by VeriSign, Inc.
Use this link to download using the Download Manager (recommended):
Windows Vista pre-RC1, English 32-Bit Edition
Bernard did a post about a new TechNet article “IIS 7 Features Overview”. The article gives you a great picture on the different IIS features available in the different Windows versions.
Windows Server “Longhorn” has all the IIS features you need to support hosting of Web content in production environments. Windows Vista also has IIS features, but the available features depend on the version of Windows Vista. IIS in Windows Vista is ideal for those who want to build and test Web applications.
Read the full TechNet at source.
Microsoft has published the August 2006 IIS Insider column.
This month Ken Schaefer (IIS MVP) addresses three commonly asked questions about IIS in the form of:
- Authentication and Authorization in IIS
- Kerberos Authentication in a Load-Balanced Web Farm
- IP Addresses Automatically Added to IP Address Restrictions?
Read the IIS Insider column at source.
Microsoft has posted a hosted hands-on lab about the new features of Windows SharePoint Services v3. The Lab are online and free (registration is required).
Learn about the new and enhanced features in Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) such as site creation, site administration, adding Web Parts, the permissions trimmed UI, list settings, navigation, list and library security, notifications, and email integration.
What’s New in Windows SharePoint Services Feature Walkthrough
Microsoft has published an article about IIS 7.0 in hosted environments. The article “Provisioning IIS 7.0 for Secure Hosting” was published on the IIS.net website.
This how-to-paper will overview guidelines and recommendations that should be followed when deploying IIS 7.0 in a hosted environment securely.
For those readers unfamiliar with the concept, isolation refers to the degree of separation between two Web applications running on a single computer. In this paper, we use the notion of a Web application in a very broad sense; it includes the processes, files, and even users, serviced by an application hosted on a Web server. Web applications are isolated from each other to the degree that one Web application is prevented from accessing resources used by another Web application. In IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 we use application pools to provide this isolation. To make the most of isolation in IIS, you must create a new application pool for every site you wish to isolate.
Since a majority of Hosting businesses use provisioning scripts to setup their sites, this paper will provide code samples to perform each of the critical operations along the way to provide the most value to its readers. The code samples used in this paper will reference the new IIS 7.0 Microsoft.Web.Administration APIs but all the same operations can still be done using the older APIs that were supported in previous versions of IIS.
What we will be doing in this paper can be divided into two categories:
- Application Pool Isolation
- Useful tips for mass hosting environments
Read the full article at source.
In addition to a previous post, there a new article from Chris Adams, this time it’s about how to create backups of your webservers and web content, read his blog post “Plan to save your Web & Backing up IIS 6.0” on his blog.
The key understanding is that IIS is a part of the operating systems and has many, many dependencies on that platform. A person tasked with understanding a organizations backup strategy cannot overlook this simple fact. This webcast spent some time discussing backups but did so by looking at three major pieces:
- IIS Web Content (i.e. inetpub\wwwroot)
- IIS Configuration (i.e. metabase.xml)
- Operating System Components (i.e. Certificates, COM+, etc.)
Read his full post at source.
