Yesterday Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7, the latest version of the world’s most popular web browser.
Customers can upgrade and browse the Web with confidence knowing that the new browser provides a greater level of security, makes everyday tasks easier, and works well with the Web sites they visit.
“We listened carefully to our customers and are delivering a safer browser that makes the tasks they do every day much easier,” said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft.
Financial institutions and security vendors such as PayPal and VeriSign are lining up to support the newest generation of the browser and encouraging their customers to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.
“Security is a top priority for PayPal, and we encourage our customers using Windows to download and use Internet Explorer 7,” said Michael Barrett, chief information security officer for PayPal Inc. “The new Internet Explorer 7 browser has significant security enhancements, including features that help customers protect their personal information when browsing, communicating and transacting online.”
Read more at:
Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Fact Sheet
Download links for IE7:
Yesterday Microsoft released RC2 (Release Candidate) of Microsoft Windows Vista. So Microsoft made it by the end of the week, as all rumours indicated about a week ago.
It’s now available for everyone for a limited time at:
http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc2/en/download.htm
Bernard has posted his monthly list over the recent published IIS knowledgebase articles from Microsoft.
Read his list at source: IIS KBs – September 2006.
Microsoft has published 2 new virtual labs. The new labs are for IIS 6.0.
- In lab 1, IIS 6.0: Compression, learn how to set up compression effectively and efficiently on IIS 6.0. You will learn how to enable compression, add new file extensions, expand to only compress a single file or directory, as well as more about compression in general.
- In lab 2, IIS 6.0: HTTP Caching, look at the fundamentals for taking your ASP.NET applications performance to the next level with IIS and HTTP.sys kernel caching. There are rules regarding what can be cached. But in this lab we set the record straight and help you understand how to increase your performance with a few small changes to your application.
The are also other labs online for IIS 7.0, so be sure to check out the Virtual Labs on IIS.net.
AvePoint has released a whitepaper that goes over the native backup tools in SharePoint v3 and details their shortcomings.
Download and read it here.
The guys a MSCOM has posted a collection of nice scripts, which they use in their work on MSCOM.
Remote Desktop has changed the way we interact with our servers. However if you have a farm of 50+ servers…heck even 10 servers, having to Remote into each server can not only be time consuming but cause your fingerprints to wear off. Utilizing tools such as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), For Loop and PSEXEC you can administer a large number of servers remotely with minimum joint pain. The Examples below go from beginning WMI usage to more advanced techniques. These scripts are meant to be a base to start from and help you build a powerful toolset.
Read their full post at source.
Microsoft has published a new article (compiled as a helpfile) on how to get started on Windows Web Hosting.
Microsoft Getting Started on Windows Web Hosting helps hosters investigate how to offer Microsoft Windows-based Web hosting while investing minimal time and effort.
Microsoft Getting Started on Windows Web Hosting is a subset of the complete Web hosting details found in The Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting version 4.0. In order to help hosters quickly grasp the concepts and obtain practical experience in Windows-based Web hosting, Getting Started on Windows Web Hosting offers a simplified set of deployment and provisioning documentation, samples, and scripts for two basic Web hosting deployment scenarios.
The download includes a few scripts and the helpfile.
Download the document package at source.
For more information on Microsoft Hosting:
Microsoft has published the September 2006 IIS Insider column on TechNet. This month Bernard Cheah (IIS MVP) addresses three commonly asked questions about IIS in the form of:
- Smart Host Authentication
- FTP Login Error – Home Directory Inaccessible
- Finding a URL with a Long Processing Time
Read the IIS Insider column at source.
