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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

• Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW (x86)
• Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW (x64)

More info

More information and a full feature list at Ruslans Blog.

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

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.