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Microsoft has released some documents about the new wonder tool for IIS migrations and web deployments, called MS Deploy, see my earlier post.
The documentation is available in RTF format and published as walkthroughs and small guides.
Download the MS Deploy Walkthroughs here.
For more hints on how to use MS Deploy, check this blog post from Mai-Lan.
ISAPI Rewrite 3 Lite Edition has been released on www.iis.net and is available for free.
ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Lite is a Freeware URL rewriter for IIS, compatible with Apache mod_rewrite. It supports nearly all Apache mod_rewrite features. It is used for search engine optimization, to proxy another server’s content, stop hotlinking or strengthen server security.
Features
Benefits
Download it here.
Microsoft has released a new updated version (build 340178) of the AdminPak for Windows Server 2003 SP2.
The Administration Tools Pack allows administrators to install the Windows Server 2003 SP2 management tools onto a computer running Windows XP Professional or a Windows Server 2003 family operating system to perform remote server management functions.
You can download the updated x86 version here and the x64 version here.
You can read about the known issues here. Still no official support for Vista yet.
Microsoft has opened for registrations to TechEd 2008 in Orlando, this year the event is split in a TechEd Developer and a TechEd IT Pro event, like it has been in Europe for some time.
The Tech·Ed U.S. 2008 IT Professionals Conference is June 10-13, 2008, with Pre-conference seminar on June 9th.
Register by Friday, April 4, 2008, to receive the discounted rate of just $1,795—that’s $200 off the regular rate of $1,995.
Registrer at msteched.com - see you there! 
Mike Volodarsky has updated his PortCheck tool to version 2.0. The tool is simple, but quick to troubleshoot connections against web sites.
The idea behind PortCheck was simple – help diagnose the common “page cannot be displayed” or “server not found” errors that could result from a number of network connectivity, or service availability issues.
Read more and download the PortCheck 2.0 tool at his blog.
Ever needed to move web sites from one server to another, this new tool IIS Site Transfer published at IIS.net, might save you a lot of time in the future.
The IIS Sites Transfer program is designed to transfer web sites from Microsoft Internet Information Server version 6 (IIS 6) to another IIS 6 server. The program also allows to transfer Windows 2003 users from one server to another and copy FTP logins, virtual directories, Web/FTP folders structure and assign NTFS folders permissions.
Read more about it and download it here.
Microsoft has released a long awaited tool!!
The Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) has a lot of the functionality of the “old” AppCenter, such as deploy content, sync site and server configurations and it seems to be released for free. It’s currently released in Technical Preview 1.
The tool supports moving configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a web server. You can choose to sync a single site or the entire web server.
The goal of the tool is to help you keep servers in sync, to make deployment easier and also to help with migrating to new versions of IIS. You could use a sync on two machines in a web farm, for example. Or maybe you need to move to a new server of the same version, you can use this tool. Of course, we also enable you to do a migration from IIS 6.0 to 7.0.
Features of MS Web Deploy Tool:
It’s available for download in x86 version and x64 version (Technical Preview 1).
Read more the the Web Deployment Team Blog.
This is a funny video about Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft, shown at the CES 2008 Keynote.
