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Jeong Hwan from the IIS Team has posted a nice little article about the new PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The article is for users who have never experienced Windows PowerShell and want to use the IIS PowerShell Provider and provides various examples.

Read his article here: Learning IIS PowerShell Provider (Step by Step).

Microsoft has released a web server edition of Windows Server 2008, called Windows Web Server 2008. This is a great product and the new version has fewer limitations than on Windows 2003. The memory limit has been increased (now 32GB on x64) and it’s now possible to install some applications on it, needed for web hosting, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Windows Media Services and SQL Server. SQL Server 2005 needs a hotfix to been installed on Windows 2008, read more about this in Bill Staples blog post below.

Windows Web Server 2008 is about half the price of the Windows Server 2008 Standard edition, so it’s great for hosting environments.

Bill Staples has blogged about it, read his post here.

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 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.

A few weeks ago Microsoft launch a new Forum on TechNet about hosting, more specific about Microsoft.com Engineering Operations.

Come join us in discussions that are focused on Engineering Operations. Ask questions, give us your insights, help us build the community of folks that are engaged in real-world systems engineering.

Direct link: MSCOM TechNet Forum

Ever needed to move web sites from one server to another, this new tool IIS Site Transfer published at IIS.net, might save you a lot of time in the future.

The IIS Sites Transfer program is designed to transfer web sites from Microsoft Internet Information Server version 6 (IIS 6) to another IIS 6 server. The program also allows to transfer Windows 2003 users from one server to another and copy FTP logins, virtual directories, Web/FTP folders structure and assign NTFS folders permissions.

Read more about it and download it here.

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.