Microsoft is really eating their own dogfood. They just annonced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, are now running on virtual machines (Microsoft Hyper-V). Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical boxes, but moved 100% of its IIS7 frond-ends on Hyper-V RC0 VMs with 4 virtual CPUs and 10GB RAM. The virtualization hosts (no mention of the brand obviously) are powered by 2 …
Ever had those drivers or devices that just won’t go away even though you’re sure you’ve uninstalled them. Could be a netword card that was replaced and you keep getting warnings that the system insists there is still an adapter installed with the same IP address. To get rid of unwanted drivers, devices: Open the “Start” menu and choose “Run…” Type “cmd” and press enter At the command prompt, type: “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1” and press enter …
I have done some major changes to my blog today. It’s been optimized with some changes to my theme and migrated to the latest version of WordPress and a new server running IIS 7.0. With WordPress 2.5 the links will now be more SEO friendly. For anyone who might be interested in what I have done, the changes done are: Upgrade to latest version of WordPress (2.51) Minor changes to the theme, should still be …
Want to hear more about the new IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider, a new PodCast has been released. The PodCast includes an interview with Thomas Deml a senior Program Manager in the IIS Team. Topics of the PodCast: Talk about the IIS7 management cmdlets Get/Set-WebConfiguration Start-WebItem Remove-WebConfigurationProperty Ability to use XPath filters Talk about the IIS7 PSprovider Provider timeline – 2nd beta in June, final in October Features ability to configure IIS and ASP.net, sites, vdirs, …
Microsoft has released a new IIS 7.0 White Paper “Migrating a Large, High-Volume Web Site to Internet Information Services 7.0”. This white paper describes how Microsoft.com migrated more than 80 Web servers, managing more than 5 gigabytes (GB) of content in more than 750 virtual roots, to IIS 7.0. Not only did the Microsoft.com Operations team reduce the effort to manage and administer the site, but it also realized a 10 percent performance gain. This …