How to Setup IIS for SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy and TLS 1.2

An often overseen action is to lock down Internet Information Services. You can increases security of SSL connections to your server by disabling insecure SSL2 and SSL3 and all insecure and weak ciphers that a browser may fall-back, too. I recently found a great PowerShell script, which can help implement the current best practices for IIS … Read more

IIS Express 7.5 and WebMatrix Released

Microsoft has released IIS Express 7.5 and WebMatrix and made them available as free download. WebMatrix is a complete Web development stack for pragmatic developers. WebMatrix is the IDE which elegantly integrates a Web server (IIS Express), database (SQL Compact) and programming frameworks (ASP.NET and PHP) into a single, integrated experience. IIS Express is a … Read more

PHP Manger for IIS 7

Ruslan from the IIS team, has released a new module for IIS 7, the PHP Manager for IIS 7, currently in beta. It is an IIS extension for setting up and managing multiple PHP installations on IIS 7 servers. It can be used to: Register PHP with IIS; Run multiple PHP versions side by side; … Read more