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 …
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“.
A few weeks ago Microsoft launch a new Forum on TechNet about hosting, more specific about Microsoft.com Engineering Operations. Come join us in discussions that are focused on Engineering Operations. Ask questions, give us your insights, help us build the community of folks that are engaged in real-world systems engineering. Direct link: MSCOM TechNet Forum