Tag Archive for 'IIS'

PHP Manger for IIS 7

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Peter Schmidt
on 2. September, 2010
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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:

  • Register PHP with IIS;
  • Run multiple PHP versions side by side;
  • Check PHP runtime configuration and environment (output of phpinfo() function)
  • Configure various PHP settings
  • Enable or disable PHP extensions
  • Remotely manage PHP configuration in php.ini fille
    Read more and download it here.

Awarded MVP for 2010

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Peter Schmidt
on 5. July, 2010
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Great news, today I received a very pleasant email from Microsoft, that told me that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for 2010 in Internet Information Services (IIS), to follow the award which I received in 2008 and 2009.

I was getting a bit nervous since I didn’t get an email or hear anything on July 1st. For some reason the mail was delayed and redelivered again by my MVP lead on July 5th.

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 information and resources that the MVP award opens up for.

Congrats to all the other newly and renewed MVPs!

Webcasts from TechEd 2010

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Peter Schmidt
on 19. June, 2010
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Below I’ve accumulated some of the presentations along with webcasts from this years TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, that I find interesting. It’s great to get up-to-date in case you didn’t attend the TechEd.

Exchange:

Security:

Data Protection Manager:

Hyper-V:

Windows Phone and Exchange:

BPOS and cloud:

Internet Information Services (IIS):

Jan has made a similar list on the Communication Server 14 webcasts from TechEd 2010, see it here.

Here also a direct link to the TechEd Online site for all Unified Communications tracks.

My website is running too slow, what to do…

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Peter Schmidt
on 18. June, 2010
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Thomas Deml fra the IIS team did a great presentation af TechEd 2010, with this topic.

Get pptx here and see the full presentation from TechEd Online here.

Read the IIS blog about the presentation.

DotNetPanel goes Open Source

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Peter Schmidt
on 20. April, 2010
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Great news for the hosting community, DotNetPanel has released their DNP software as Open Source under the name Website Panel.

DotNetPanel has undoubtedly been the best .NET based Control Panel for Windows hosting, such as IIS, Exchange, SharePoint and Hyper-V.

For reason they have now decided to make it available for free under the open source license.

We are excited to announce that SMB SAAS Systems Inc. has revised the DotNetPanel codebase and posted that new code under the new name “WebsitePanel” to SourceForge.NET as an open source project.

WebsitePanel is a line-of-business application and we recognize the benefits of using an open source development model as a more agile and flexible way to meet the growing needs of the web hosting community.

This will enable the hosting and development community to directly contribute to the future of the project, ensuring WebsitePanel’s continued development as an affordable and scalable control panel for Microsoft Windows hosting.

With this change, software developers and hosting providers can now easily integrate WebsitePanel directly into their own offerings and extend the functionality and features to meet their customers’ Windows hosting needs.

For current DotNetPanel customers SMB SAAS Systems Inc. will be providing free community support for a limited time. Future new versions and product updates (including enterprise modules) and bug fixes will be available at no cost to all customers via the WebsitePanel open source project.

We encourage all our customers to move to the WebsitePanel, which will continue to be supported, and participate in WebsitePanel project at SourceForge.NET.

WebsitePanel - control panel for Windows hosting

The software is now named WebsitePanel and it still supports a wide range of software for hosting, see the full list of supported software here.

Download the binaries directly from sourceforge.

URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7

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Peter Schmidt
on 27. November, 2009
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URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server.

The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to:

  • Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications;
  • Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables;
  • Web site content handling;
  • Controlling access to web site content based on URL segments or request metadata.

Download details URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 (x86)

Download Details URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 (x64)

More info see IIS.net URL Rewrite.

FTP and SSL

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Peter Schmidt
on 28. October, 2009
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Stumbled across some great articles about FTP, SSL and Active/Passive settings made by Alun Jones (Security MVP).

Thanks to Steve Schofield for the reference.

URL Rewrite Module – Released To Web

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Peter Schmidt
on 11. November, 2008
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The IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft.

Overview

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to express URL rewriting logic that can use regular expressions or wildcards and can make rewriting decisions based on HTTP headers and server variables. While the primary purpose of the module is to rewrite requested URL’s, it also has functionality to perform redirects, send custom responses or abort requests based on the logic expressed in the rewrite rules. In the end this means more Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs, something used in a lot of web applications like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, just to list a few, there’s already some documentation from Microsoft on how to enable pretty Permalinks in WordPress.

Benefits

The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to:

  • Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications
  • Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables
  • Web site content management
  • Controlling access to web site content

Download

More info

More information and a full feature list at Ruslans Blog.