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Next week I will be presenting at the ASP.NET Connections event in Las Vegas the following topics: AMS04: Boost Your Site’s Search Ranking with the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit : Search engines are just robots, and you have to play by their rules if you want to see your site in the top search results. In this session, you will learn how to leverage the IIS Search Engine Optimizer and other tools to improve your Web site for search engine and user traffic. You will leave this session with...( read more ) Read More...

There are some known issues/bugs related to VS 2010 Web Deployment features in VS 2010 Beta 2 Read Me… I can imagine reading the entire Beta 2 read me file can be daunting so I thought I can just copy paste the ones related to Web Deployment here… DB Read More......( read more ) Read More...

In Windows 2000 clustering, there was a resource for IIS clustering. This was removed and hasn't been available until recently Thomas Deml from the IIS team pointed to a KB article.. Exciting, Exciting news!! http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2009/10/27/iis7-and-failover-clustering.aspx Here is more information about Windows 2008 failover clustering http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/high-availability.aspx Clustering forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverClustering/threads Enjoy, Steve Schofield Read More...

Today somebody ask in the IIS.net Forums how could they automate the process of adding IIS Manager Users and their Permissions using a script or a command line and I thought it would be useful to post something that hopefully will be easy to find and refer to. One way they found to do it through configuration however they were not getting the password encrypted. The first thing that I would like to highlight is that the password is not encrypted, it is actually stored as a hash which means just entering...( read more ) Read More...

Thanks much to the Microsoft Learning and MS Press folks for such a fantastic giveaway. I remember getting the pre-cursor for this book, Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 , before I joined Microsoft and it was a huge help in getting grounded with the then-new OS. Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is a deep-dive work, that'll get you up to speed on how R2's new features and capabilities work, including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, IIS and the new Web application platform...( read more ) Read More...

Have you ever hummed the Jeopardy theme song while waiting for a Web site to download - even on a high-speed Internet connection? Sometimes the problem is OUT of your control – whether it is an Internet traffic jam, scheduled maintenance, or some other unknown cause for a delay in receiving your request to view the latest on what the stock market is doing. But sometimes the problem is IN your control – such as pre-loading worker processes at the start of the Web server or when Overlapped Recycling...( read more ) Read More...

Few minutes ago a colleague and friend asked me about some problem he was having with ASP.NET themes. He was using a theme and including a CSS file in it, the CSS file was linked in the generated HTML but clearly it was not applied. Putting the URL of the CSS file in the browser address bar would return an empty result in Firefox, and a crappy DOCTYPE,HTML,HEAD,BODY tags in IE. The same website works normally with other developers running Windows XP or Windows 7. Going further to the problem, I tried checking the file access, giving extra permissions and so on, checking web.config and global.asax for any ASP.NET HTTP Handler or HTTP Module that might be handling all requests. None of this existed. Then, I switched to IIS, trying to change the...

France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also uses Smooth Streaming to deliver an innovative take on live news. You can check out the player and their blog post (in French.) Here’s the quick summary of the France 24 French blog post: “Imagine that each spoken word in a video is automatically transcribed and associated with a recorded video sequence. Add to that a program grid, real-time viewer data and vote tallying. Then present all of this in...( read more ) Read More...

The final release of the Web Deployment Tool (aka Web Deploy or MsDeploy) has been released to the web.  This is likely more significant than many people realize.  At first glance, Web Deploy seems like a tool for system administrators to copy sites and settings between servers (IIS6 to IIS6, IIS6 to IIS7 and IIS7 to IIS7).  It does do that, including SSL, COM, GAC, ACLs, registry, content and more. However, Web Deploy is likely to become a major deployment method for developers too.  Visual Studio 2010 will have native support for Web Deploy, offering the ability to deploy a entire website with the single-click feature of VS2010.  What’s also impressive is that it’s so lightening fast.  Only the file changes are...

One of our MVPs Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi is doing a Live Meeting  M VP TV talk on : Simplifying Deployment With the Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) You are invited to join the talk which is scheduled for Wednesday, October 14 th , 2009 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm Read More......( read more ) Read More...