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Dave , a test lead at IIS, sent me a link to Puneet Gupta’s blog post about the Client Certificates UI that he developed. One of the more common requests we get on the IIS 7 UI team is for a Client Certificates UI Module. Puneet took advantage of the IIS 7 UI Extensibility and coded up neat working module. You can find out more about it on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/puneetgupta/archive/2009/08/03/where-is-the-client-certificates-ui-in-iis-7-0.aspx Currently, the Client Certificates...( read more ) Read More...
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new IIS7 Extension , the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger. A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10. We almost made it! We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today. Check them out here: http://www.iis.net/getstarted Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding a cool demo for each of the reasons to show the features in action. Be sure to check back soon! Read More...
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions/ Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this , I realized we didn’t have a single place to learn about all of them, so I kicked off an effort within the team to create this. Now that the pages are up, it is amazing to see how many new capabilities are already available on top of IIS7…which all by itself had more new features than any other IIS release in the history of the product. It is a testament to not only the ingenuity and hard work of the IIS team, but a real validation that IIS7 is not just a Web server, it is a server platform. All of these new features are built on top of public extensibility points that any developer can use, and provide a seamless runtime, configuration and administration experience that looks and feels like they were built...
Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading: URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release. Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 features around. Use it to clean up URLs, provide extension-less URLs, fix canonicalization issues with your site to improve search ranking, redirect incoming users and much, much more. This latest URL Rewrite release includes all new IIS Manager support for creating rewrite rules using templates, rule testing and more. Speaking of the URL Rewrite extension, check out these community links: CarlosAg wrote a really awesome post on how to make your IIS7 site search engine friendly (SEO) with IIS7 URL Rewriter . Barry Wise, who has written a lot about SEO, did a follow-up post on the topic for IIS Scott Hanselman writes about URL Rewriter as well on how he uses it to improve canonicalization...
For those of you that remember that far back, I released a sample that also filled a need for Windows Vista. Since the original version of Windows Vista did not ship with a user interface for managing logging, and we needed samples of how to build UI modules available to the public, I released the Logging UI module. For some time, I've been hosting that downloadable release on my private web site ( tobint.com ). As I plan to make some major changes to my personal site over the next few months, I wanted to make sure the release was still reliably available. That said, I've now added the source code to CodePlex . You may find the project at http://www.codeplex.com/iis70loggingui . I have worked with our source asset management team and made this available under the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/iis70loggingui/license">MS-PL</a>. I hope that this makes the download reliably available. I'm looking forward to developing more samples that I will also be releasing...
The GoLive release of URL Rewrite Module is now available and has a lot of improvement thanks to the IIS Community feedback (and tons of internal brainstorm meetings!). A new feature is the ability to create Rewrite Rules by using Rewrite Templates, Rewrite Read More......( read more ) Read More...
In IIS 7 we introduced a completely new configuration system which is used by the IIS runtime and all our administration tools. The configuration system is based on distributed XML files that contain the configuration for IIS, ASP.NET and other components; flexibility in the configuration system also allows for configuration to be set at a a number of levels including at the server, the site and the application level. Configuration at the site and application level coexists alongside ASP.NET configuration in web.config files. One of my favourite and in my opinion one of the coolest features of our new config system is that the configuration system itself is extensible. You can quickly and easily extend config with your own attributes, collections, etc. and in fact we use config system extensibility on some of the downloadable modules we ship (e.g. FTP 7.0, and some more to come in the near future... you'll see them on IIS.NET in the next few days) What do I mean by extensible? Well...
The IIS7 community is growing! There have been a number of really cool things going on in the community around IIS7. Here are some of my favorites: New Web Control Panels for IIS7! I was very excited to see two new control panels for IIS7 hit the market this past month. I was excited to see the DotNetPanel guys be one of the first to market with an update of their DotNetPanel product for IIS7. They have a demo on their site you can try out now, or go download a copy for free (up to 10 sites!) The reviews on the download page look good. I was also excited when big-name vendor SWSoft released an update to their Plesk product for Windows v 8.3 beta which also supports IIS7. These guys are used all over the place in giant Web hosters, and having IIS7 support pre-launch is a really great sign. You can download their latest beta here . New IIS7 Administration Tool Add-ons! Rahul of the IIS/ASP.NET support team has published...
A few months ago the IIS team did a quick tour of Europe, speaking in various cities and countries in an all-day IIS conference specifically geared toward training people on IIS7. Luckily, the good people of Poland decided to record publish the training online for everyone to use. Check out the sessions below to watch Brett Hill and Isaac Roybal present IIS7. Here is a list of all the sessions: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/result_search.aspx?event=69&x=13&y=2 IIS 7 Web Server Platform- Windows Server “Longhorn” Microsoft’s Next Generation Web Server: What’s New in IIS 7 for IT Pros Isaac Roybal , Product Manager, Windows Server, Microsoft Corporation This overview session will highlight the key points of interests for IT Pros in Internet Information Services version 7. IIS7 modularity increases security by allowing a reduced installation footprint and creation of specialized, streamlined servers. Application Pools are now “sandboxed” by default. You’ll see how IIS7...
This is just an overview of my personal experience with IIS7’s Extensibility capabilities. I’m breaking this down into 3 sections: 1. Tips and Tricks with the GAC and how to avoid being confused 2. What’s in an Async Call? 3. Advantages of breaking the new module into two separate DLL’s 1: Tips and Tricks with the GAC This is more about troubleshooting your GAC entry and including your GAC information in the module provider section of administration.config. Recently, I ran into a problem with porting and modifying an experimental module and the GAC information was my sticking point. My problem was registering the module in administration.config. Here are the steps for making sure your module is in the GAC and in IIS: 1. Follow the steps given in the Extensibility Demos. Specifically, make sure that the binaries are signed and the Post-Build event is: CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat" > NULL gacutil.exe /if "$(TargetPath)" 2. Use gacutil to determine the information needed for administration...
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