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.
Upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.6 yesterday and encountered an issue with permalinks not working anymore.
Apparently this is a wellknown issue, especially when you host your WordPress blog on Windows and use permalinks with the index.php in the link, then the permalinks may fail.
I found a few solutions to this, the first one was to change some of the php files and the second was to add some text into the Category base and tag base within the admin console. I went for the second solution, since it seemed must simple and adding the settings worked for me.
Here’s what I found of solutions on the issue:
1. PHP file change
2. Category base and Tag base solution (the simple one) 
WordPress are working on it and the fix is included in the upcoming version 2.6.1.
Found another nice videocast on TechNet Edge by Ryan Dunn, where he shows how easy it is to get PHP up and configured on IIS 7.0 using FastCGI. The popular PHP-based blogging application, WordPress, is used to demonstrate.
See the videocast here on TechNet Edge.
