IIS

Yesterday the IIS Team released a cool new module for IIS 7.0, the first beta release of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP. The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator, that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems. Any PHP application can take advantage of the functionality provided by the Windows Cache Extension for PHP without any code modifications. All that is required …

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Microsoft has confirmed the 0-day vulnerability in IIS FTP Service that could allow for remote code execution and posted a Security Advisory. In short it’s only the FTP service in IIS prior to IIS 7 and Windows 2008, here’s the full list of affected systems: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1 Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft …

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Great news, today I received a very pleasant e-mail from Microsoft, that told me that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for 2009, to follow the award which I received in 2008. I am very happy and once again extremely humble to be associated with a great group of very clever people around the globe. Thanks to Microsoft for the award, I really appreciate working with Microsoft and getting access to the …

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The IIS Team has released another cool product for IIS 7. A few days ago The IIS Team released the beta of IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit. The toolkit provides you with a number of features which can help you ensure that your site follows best practices with regards to how search engines crawl and parse your site as well as providing features for generating robots.txt files and sitemaps. Carlos, the person behind the toolkit, …

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Saw this great blog post about IIS Security written by Tobin from the IIS Team. It covers the following topics with IIS Security: Ghosts of IIS Security Past Improvements in IIS 6 Improvements in IIS 7.x It’s a must read for everyone working with IIS. Read the blog post here.