Another cool tool for IIS 7. The PHP Manager has been released by Ruslan from the IIS team. It’s available for download at codeplex. PHP Manager is a tool for IIS 7 that greatly simplifies installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting of PHP in IIS.
The announced ASP.NET vulnerability (Microsoft Security Advisory (2416728) from Microsoft is also affecting Exchange Server. The Exchange Team has tested the patch for this vulnerability and has approved it and it’s recommended to apply this to your Exchange servers as soon as possible.
The Exchange Server team has completed validation of this fix against Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, 2007 and 2003 and we are pleased to report that we have not identified any issues related to the application of this patch on an Exchange Server.
We recommend that Exchange customers consider applying this fix to all of their Exchange Servers which have an affected version of ASP.NET installed on the underlying Operating System in a timely manner to help protect against any attempts to exploit this vulnerability within their environment.
Details of the fix and its application, along with download links can be found here:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-070 – Important: Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure (2418042)
For more information and direct download links, read Scott Guthrie’s blog post: ASP.NET Security Update Now Available
The Core Configurator is a CodePlex project that can be used to administer Windows 2008 R2 Server Core installations.
It is completely open source so it can be amended and change to fit your requirements, this version has been a year in the making and has been written in powershell with a reference to Winforms so that a GUI format is displayed.
It’s a small application that you can either copy to the server or else run from a USB stick or network drive.
Get the great little tool here.
Big news! The Release Candidate (RC) of Lync Server 2010 has been released today and is available for download at Microsoft Download: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 RC.
Lync Server 2010 seems to be the new name for, what was previously known as Communications Server “14” (codename). The latest generation of the Office Communications Server product suite from Microsoft.
It’s not official from Microsoft yet, but several tweets and a blog post from ZDNET indicate this already, plus Microsoft already made the name available at Microsoft Download and on the TechNet blogs.
The Planning Tool is also available as download.
To get an overview over what’s now in CS "14" Lync server, there’s a series of videos available.
The WebsitePanel software has now released documentation and support for Exchange 2010 SP1 hosted setup, using the /hosting parameter during the Exchange 2010 install.
There is also some news in the WebsitePanel forum on MSDN. Yes, the WebsitePanel support forum are now hosted on MSDN Forums.
Ruslan from the IIS team, has released a new module for IIS 7, the PHP Manager for IIS 7, currently in beta.
It is an IIS extension for setting up and managing multiple PHP installations on IIS 7 servers. It can be used to:
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