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The Microsoft IIS Team has released a bunch of new modules for IIS 7.0. Here’s an overview of the newly released modules:

• URLRewrite module
• Web Playlists
• FTP 7 Update (x86) Installation Package 
• FTP 7 Update (x64) Installation Package

• WebDAV Update (x86) Installation Package

• WebDAV Update (x64) Installation Package

Microsoft has released the latest version of URLScan 3.0, it’s released to web (RTW) like a lot of the other IIS modules and tools on IIS.net.

URLScan 3.0 can help block automated sql injection attacks at global or site level and it can be used with IIS 6 and IIS 7.

Download links:

• UrlScan v3.0 RTW for x86
• UrlScan v3.0 RTW for x64

More info here.

In the latest edition of TechNet Magazine there’s an interesting article about Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0 written by Mike Volodarsky.

Read the full article “Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0” at TechNet.

I am very happy and honored to announce that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) award for 2008, for my contributions to the Microsoft IIS Community. This is my first MVP award, so I’m truly honored. So thank you Microsoft and the people who nominated me, it’s great to be recognized!

Congrats to all the other newly and renewed MVPs!

In the latest edition of TechNet Magazine there’s an article about IIS 7.0 “Going Live with IIS 7.0″ written by Fergus Strachan. The articles covers the following IIS 7.0 topics:

• Deploy IIS 7.0 in a Web farm environment
• Security and performance enhancements
• Migrate ASP.NET Web apps from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0
• Migrate PHP Web apps to IIS 7.0

Read the full article Going Live with IIS 7.0 at TechNet.

Steve Schofield have created a new reference website: AppCMD.com. AppCMD.exe is the new single command line management tool for managing IIS 7.0.

I’m not sure if humans are supposed to remember command line syntax.  For me, the most frustrating part is remembering the syntax of a certain command line option.  To help me remember these for future use, and hopefully share with the community.

Here’s another a great article to get you started with AppCMD: “Getting Started with AppCMD.exe” by Mike Volodarsky at IIS.net.

Find all your AppCMD reference at: www.appcmd.com.

Found this nice mini-article about how to configure SSL on IIS 7.0 on a Windows Server 2008 running ServerCore.

Due to the popularity of Windows 2008 Server Core I have seen frequently questions about how to configure SSL on IIS7 with only command-line. Since I wandered that path few months back I thought of putting this article/guide together.

Read the full blog post here.

The IIS Support Team now has their own blog on the MSDN site, it will contain useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams.

Direct link here.