Google Analytics has left the beta stage and is now available to everyone, without any waiting time for an account.
It’s actually pretty cool, i’ve been running it on my site for about ½ a year by now and it generates some pretty good statistics and reports.
I believe it’s a good alternative to a lot of other statistics products, it might need at few things, you’ll find in some enterprise products – but it’s an online service and it’s free 
Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.
Read more at the Google Analytics Blog or just sign up for an account at Google Analytics and test it yourself
Ever needed a forum on SharePoint?
CodePlex has released an updated version (1.2) of their SharePoint Forums, which is a webpart for Windows SharePoint Services.
The SharePoint Forums Web Part is a free, open source, single web part that provides a more feature rich discussion board for SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services.
It provides threaded discussions which can be locked, hidden, secured, and subscribed to and offers typical features found in discussion boards like phpBB and ASP.NET Forums.
The Web Part is self-contained and will create/update it’s own hidden lists for storage, but otherwise looks like any discussion board out there today but integrated with SharePoint.
Read more and download it at source.
Microsoft has released a What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) blogging tool and delivered it in the form of Windows Live Writer.
This is the blogs currently compatible with Windows Live Writer:
- Windows Live Spaces
- Blogger
- LiveJournal
- TypePad
- WordPress
- All blogs that support RSD (Really Simple Discoverability)
- Metaweblog API
- Moveable Type API
Read more at the Windows Live Writer blog.
Download Windows Live Write Beta for free.
Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting v 4.0.
Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting Version 4.0 provides hosting service providers with tools, tested best practices, scripts, and code samples designed to efficiently deploy offerings on the Windows platform.
Read more at the Microsoft Portal for Hosters and Service Providers.
Download Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting v 4.0.
Microsoft certainly knowns how to make commercials, this one about Small Business Server 2003 R2 is quite good and heavily inspired from Da Vinci Code. Just what we need on a friday
See the Da SBS Code here.
Ever needed LDAP Authentication in IIS, Inflection has made an LDAP ISAPI Authentication Module.
This ISAPI module will allow a Microsoft IIS server to authenticate users with an LDAP server. We modified Salvador Salanova Fortmann’s original code to support Novell’s eDirectory as well as a more flexible configuration file and some other options. The source code is GPL.
Read more and download at source.
Bernard (IIS MVP) has written an article “Sneak peek: Microsoft IIS 7.0 server” for ZDNet Asia. It’s a good article and it gives you an insight into the new features of IIS 7.0.
On his personal blog, Bernard has publish an additional paragraph for the article, that apprently got cut in the edit of the published article, read his blog post for more on this.
Read the “Sneak peek: Microsoft IIS 7.0 server” article at source.
TechNet Magazine has published the article “Plan Ahead to Save Your Web” on Disaster Recovery for webservers running IIS 6.0. The article is written by Chris Adams, PM for IIS. The article is great and it also has some nice batch file samples.
This is what the article contains:
- Back up your forgotten data
- Back up the metabase
- Don’t forget your content
- Disaster Recovery Automation 101
Read the full article at source.
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