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 has released a Technical Preview 1 of the PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The new provider is a snap-in that allows you to manage IIS 7.0 configuration. The IIS7 PowerShell Provider allows you to Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications and Virtual Directories Add and Change Complex Configuration Settings Query Run-time Data (Web-Site State, Application Pool State, Currently Executing Requests) Execute …
Friday I pulled a day out of the calendar for a dedicated exam day and I took the challenge of taking 3 Microsoft tests on the same day, I’ve done this before, but it’s the first time I passed all 3. 🙂 I took and passed 70-238 (Exchange 2007), 70-351 (ISA 2006) and in the end of the day, a bit impulsive I ended up taking 70-646 (Windows 2008 – Server Administrator), which went pretty …
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 …
It’s always hard as a website admin to continuously measure your site to make sure it performs the best at all times, it’s therefore recommendable to use external tools and services for these measures. Here’s my list of Website Performance Measuring Tools. Keynote – Awesome service and features, but more expensive Webperform – Nice features and basic monitoring is free (1 website and the diagnostics module) IT Scales – Provides the simple needs and a …