Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting v 4.0. Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting Version 4.0 provides hosting service providers with tools, tested best practices, scripts, and code samples designed to efficiently deploy offerings on the Windows platform. Read more at the Microsoft Portal for Hosters and Service Providers. Download Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting v 4.0.
Microsoft certainly knowns how to make commercials, this one about Small Business Server 2003 R2 is quite good and heavily inspired from Da Vinci Code. Just what we need on a friday 🙂 See the Da SBS Code here.
Ever needed LDAP Authentication in IIS, Inflection has made an LDAP ISAPI Authentication Module. This ISAPI module will allow a Microsoft IIS server to authenticate users with an LDAP server. We modified Salvador Salanova Fortmann’s original code to support Novell’s eDirectory as well as a more flexible configuration file and some other options. The source code is GPL. Read more and download at source.
Bernard (IIS MVP) has written an article “Sneak peek: Microsoft IIS 7.0 server” for ZDNet Asia. It’s a good article and it gives you an insight into the new features of IIS 7.0. On his personal blog, Bernard has publish an additional paragraph for the article, that apprently got cut in the edit of the published article, read his blog post for more on this. Read the “Sneak peek: Microsoft IIS 7.0 server” article at …
TechNet Magazine has published the article “Plan Ahead to Save Your Web” on Disaster Recovery for webservers running IIS 6.0. The article is written by Chris Adams, PM for IIS. The article is great and it also has some nice batch file samples. This is what the article contains: Back up your forgotten data Back up the metabase DonÂ’t forget your content Disaster Recovery Automation 101 Read the full article at source.