IIS Support Team Blog
The IIS Support Team now has their own blog on the MSDN site, it will contain useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams. Direct link here.
IIS PowerShell Provider – step-by-step
Jeong Hwan from the IIS Team has posted a nice little article about the new PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The article is for users who have never experienced Windows PowerShell and want to use the IIS PowerShell Provider and provides various examples. Read his article here: Learning IIS PowerShell Provider (Step by Step).
Windows Web Server 2008 Edition
Microsoft has released a web server edition of Windows Server 2008, called Windows Web Server 2008. This is a great product and the new version has fewer limitations than on Windows 2003. The memory limit has been increased (now 32GB on x64) and it’s now possible to install some applications on it, needed for web hosting, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Windows Media Services and SQL Server. SQL Server 2005 needs a hotfix to been …
MSCOM whitepaper about the Web Deploy Tool
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“.
WebDAV for IIS 7.0
Microsoft just keeps releasing modules for IIS 7.0. A few weeks ago the WebDAV module for IIS 7.0 was released. The new WebDAV module comes with new features: Integration with IIS 7.0: The new WebDAV extension module is fully integrated with the new IIS 7.0 administration interface and configuration store. Per-site Configuration: WebDAV can be enabled and configured at the site-level on IIS 7.0, which differed from IIS 6.0 where WebDAV was enabled at the …