Peter Schmidt

PFDAVAdmin and Exchange 2007

If you have never used PFDAVAdmin (Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool) to manage public folders and mailbox permissions, take a look at it, it’s a pretty nice utility. It’s not a new tool, but it can help you to do a lot of things “in bulk” that you might not have done as easily otherwise or at least certainly not as quickly. PFDAVAdmin works with Exchange 2000/2003/2007. When working with Public Folder permissions on Exchange …

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Microsoft MVP: IIS

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!

Hyper-V RTM’ed

Great news! – It’s now confirmed Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 have been Released to Manufactoring (RTM) today and is available as download and from July 8th it will be available through Windows Update. An official Press Release from Microsoft. At TechEd Microsoft announced that they were way ahead of schedule and expected a release within a few week and not in August 2008 as previously scheduled. Download from here or from the Hyper-V website. More information: Virtualization Team …

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URLScan 3.0 beta

Microsoft has released a beta version of UrlScan 3.0. UrlScan is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, UrlScan helps prevent potentially harmful requests from being processed by web applications on the server. UrlScan can also be configured to help against SQL injection attacks. Download UrlScan 3.0 beta: x86 version x64 version Supported platform: Internet Information Services 5.1, 6.0 or …

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Going Live with IIS 7.0

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.