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The team behind Microsoft.com used the Web Deployment Tool for migrations from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0. Now they have released a whitepaper describing their experience.

Here the Whitepaper: “Migrating a Web Server from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 by Using the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool“.

Microsoft has released a Technical Preview 1 of the PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The new provider is a snap-in that allows you to manage IIS 7.0 configuration.

The IIS7 PowerShell Provider allows you to

• Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools
• Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications and Virtual Directories
• Add and Change Complex Configuration Settings
• Query Run-time Data (Web-Site State, Application Pool State, Currently Executing Requests)
• Execute Advanced Configuration Tasks, Scripting, Integration with other PowerShell Snap-Ins and features
• Search and Discover Configuration Settings

Download the Technical Preview 1 here:

• x86 version
• x64 version

Another great tool has been released. The IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer is an add-on for the Failed Request Tracing (FRT) feature of IIS 7.0. In FRT you are able to troubleshoot and do tracing. This tool provides a GUI interface for all those FRT logfiles.

IIS7 Trace Viewer Features

• Trace View icon per site. Automatically enumerates all your trace files
• Shows trace filename, file size, file date, requested Url, HTTP status code, Application Pool and Time Taken in list format. Supports sorting of these columns
• Double-click on a row and the trace file will open in Internet Explorer
• Completely remoteable and delegateable for hosted enviroments.  
• Update via F5
• Install program included

Read more and download at source.

Microsoft just keeps releasing modules for IIS 7.0. A few weeks ago the WebDAV module for IIS 7.0 was released. The new WebDAV module comes with new features:

• Integration with IIS 7.0:
  • The new WebDAV extension module is fully integrated with the new IIS 7.0 administration interface and configuration store.
• Per-site Configuration:
  • WebDAV can be enabled and configured at the site-level on IIS 7.0, which differed from IIS 6.0 where WebDAV was enabled at the server-level through a Web Service Extension.
• Per-URL Security:
  • WebDAV-specific security is implemented through WebDAV authoring rules that are configured on a per-URL basis.

Download:

• 32-bit version (x86)
• 64-bit version (x64)

Read more at source.

I�ve written a new article on www.windowsnetworking.com about IIS 7.0. The article is a guide to installing IIS 7.0.

This article will cover the basics of installing Internet Information Services 7.0 and the different installation modes available, when they can be used and what benefits they have.

Read the full article here: Installing IIS 7.0.

I’ve written a new article on www.windowsnetworking.com about IIS 7.0. The article is an introduction to the basics IIS 7.0.

The basics of Internet Information Services 7.0 also known as IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 is the web server role in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Joel Oleson has done some great posts on his blog about running SharePoint 3.0 on IIS 7.0.

Read his two posts about SharePoint and IIS 7.0 here:

• WSS 3.0 on IIS 7 in Windows Server 2008 is HOT!!!
• Installing Windows Server 2008 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0