Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Web Deployment Tool Released

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A few days ago the IIS Team released the final version of the Web Deployment Tool. The tool is the best (next best) since Microsoft AppCenter for handling web deployment. The Web Deployment Tool simplifies migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites. The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites. Administrators can use command-line scripting with the Web …

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Windows Cache Extension for PHP – Public Beta Available

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Yesterday the IIS Team released a cool new module for IIS 7.0, the first beta release of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP. The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator, that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems. Any PHP application can take advantage of the functionality provided by the Windows Cache Extension for PHP without any code modifications. All that is required …

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0-day vulnerability in IIS FTP confirmed

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Microsoft has confirmed the 0-day vulnerability in IIS FTP Service that could allow for remote code execution and posted a Security Advisory. In short it’s only the FTP service in IIS prior to IIS 7 and Windows 2008, here’s the full list of affected systems: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1 Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft …

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OCS 2007 R2 Web Scheduler

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A few weeks ago Microsoft released the OCS 2007 R2 Web Scheduler to web, available as download. It was originally scheduled to be part of R2 ResKit, but has now been Released To Web. Web Scheduler is a 64-bit tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It provides a Web-based alternative to the add-in for the Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration client for the purpose of scheduling a meeting using Office Communications Server 2007 …

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Deploying Certificates in OCS 2007 whitepaper

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Microsoft has released a new and very useful whitepaper on deploying certificates in OCS 2007. Certificates with OCS has always been a bit tricky and documentation on OCS and certificates has always lacked, until now. Rick Kingslan, with the help of a series of excellent people, has now created a whitepaper called “Deploying Certificates in Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2”. This whitepaper includes links to learning resources for the basics …

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