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In last a few weeks, the IIS team has released 3 IIS extensions updates: · URL Rewrite Module CTP1 · Application Request Routing CTP1 · PowerShell Provider CTP2 URL Rewrite Module URL Rewrite Module is a rule-based rewriting engine for changing request URL’s before they get processed by web server.  It can be used to provide user and search engine friendly URLs for dynamic web applications, rewrite and redirect URLs based on HTTP headers and server variables, and control access to web site content. · Additional information is available at Using URL Rewrite Module . · Downloads: X86 X64 · Support: URL Rewrite Module forum . Application Request Routing Application Request Routing (ARR) is a proxy based...

With so many cool new capabilities in IIS7 , and even more new features coming out all the time , it's no wonder you want to move to IIS7.  But you work for The Man, and everyone knows The Man wants ROI .  He can't just let you go willy-nilly and adopt every cool new technology that hits the street.  After all, He has a business to run.  And that business currently runs on IIS 6.  And he's paid you a lot of money (ok, not that much) to write the code, test the apps, deploy the servers, and keep those HTML pumping machines up and running 24x7x365.  And things are running well, right?  When was the last time you had to worry about metabase corruption?  Or been forced to run IISRESET?  Or...

Interested in knowing what kind of performance gains you can expect from IIS7?  Performance is a fickle beast, with so much of it dependent on your application, your hardware, configuration and tuning... it is sometimes hard to know which variables carry the most weight.  Fortunately, the Microsoft.com operations folks have put together a great summary of their real-world performance data .  The short story is: IIS7 servers handle 31% more requests per second than their IIS6 peers, at a slightly higher CPU rate.  For all the gory details, read the Microsoft.com blog ! Read More...

Overview This post walks you through the 5 steps necessary to installing ASP.NET v1.1 on IIS7: Ensure that "IIS Metabase Compatibility" is installed Install .NET Framework v1.1 and .NET Framework v1.1 SP1 Enable the ASP.NET v1.1 ISAPI Extension Add the IgnoreSection Handler to Framework v1.1 machine.config to system.webServer Move your site or application to a Framework v1.1 application pool Step 1: Install "IIS Metabase Compatibility" The IIS7 "Metabase compatibility" component is required to successfully install ASP.NET 1.1.  To install it on Windows 2008 Server, click Start , and click Server Manager .  Expand the left-hand treeview in Server Manager and click Manage Roles , and then Web Server (IIS...

If you've been following http://blogs.iis.net/ or http://www.iis.net/downloads/ lately you've probably noticed a lot of IIS software releases coming out with lots of odd acronyms... CTPs, GoLive releases, RTWs. You may wonder: what are these releases, and how do they compare to IIS in the past? For anyone who has been an IIS customer for a while, it may seem quite foreign to see IIS features coming out which are not attached to an OS release. In the past, IIS has always shipped as part of a Windows Operating System release... IIS 5.0 in Windows 2000, IIS 5.1 in XP, IIS 6 in Windows 2003 and IIS7 in Vista and Windows 2008. The BIGGEST, sometimes invisible feature of IIS7, is the deep level of extensibility we've baked into the product...

I hear this question a lot in the http://forums.iis.net/ , and thanks to Carlos and team's rocking Configuration Editor, figuring this out on your own is a breeze.  Here is how you can generate code for ANY IIS7 configuration change, without writing a line yourself.   1) download the IIS7 Administration Pack.  What, you don't have it already?  You're really missing out on some fantastic tools, including the Configuration Editor.  Learn more about the admin pack here http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/401/using-the-administration-pack/   You can download x86 and x64 from http://www.iis.net/downloads .   2) open "IIS Manager" and click on the "Configuration Editor" feature under the...

One of the most hotly requested features for IIS is now available!  Yesterday we shipped the first technical preview of a new URLrewrite module for IIS7.  It is free for all IIS7 users and available for download x86 and x64 .  Thomas and Carlos have blogged about many of the details already, so be sure and check their posts out.  Ruslan also posted a bunch of really great walkthroughs on IIS7, which you can check out here , including: Creating rewrite rules for the URL Rewrite Module This walkthrough will guide you through how to create and test a set of rewrite rules for the URL rewrite module. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

You may have seen recent reports that have surfaced stating that web sites running on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 have been compromised. These reports allude to a possible vulnerability in IIS or issues related to Security Advisory 951306 which was released last week. Microsoft has investigated these reports and determined that the attacks are not related to the recent Microsoft Security Advisory (951306) or any known security issues related to IIS 6.0, ASP, ASP.Net or Microsoft SQL technologies. Instead, attackers have crafted an automated attack that can take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities in web pages that do not follow security best practices for web application development. While these particular...

One of the things I'm most excited about Windows Server 2008 is the new Web-focused version of Windows called Windows Web Server 2008.  It is a special, low-priced version of Windows (only $469 retail, half the price of Standard edition and available anywhere Windows Server is sold) that is focused exclusively on Internet-based Web serving.  With Windows Web Server 2008, we have greatly expanded the capabilities of this Windows SKU based on customer feedback about Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. We have enhanced the supported hardware configurations supporting up to 4 sockets and up to 32GB of RAM on x64 installations, exactly the same as Windows standard server. In addition to the expanded hardware configurations we also support...