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One of my favorites features in the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit is what we called Report Comparison. Report Comparison basically allows you to compare two different versions of the results of crawling the same site to see what changed in between. This is a really convenient way to track not only changes in terms of SEO violations but also to be able to compare any attributes on the pages such as Title, Heading, Description, Links, Violations, etc. How to access the feature There...( read more ) Read More...
Today we did the official release for ARR Version 2 for IIS7 and it is now fully supported by Microsoft Support . Overview: Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS 7.0 is a proxy-based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to application servers based on HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms. ARR Version 2 is an incremental release that includes all of the features from Version 1, and adds support for disk-based cache. More specifically, ARR Version 2 can be used to: Enhance ARR Version 1 scenarios with disk cache. Use ARR as a cache proxy as a cache node in a CDN/ECN environment . Use ARR as an edge/child cache node. Use ARR as a parent cache node. Download ARRv2 RTW from: • Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 RTW for IIS 7.0 (x86) here . • Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 RTW for IIS 7.0 (x64) here . What’s new in RTW: RSCA runtime statistics as performance counters . Users of Application...
Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 RTW . Customers - such as hosting providers, Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers, and IT Professionals are changing the way they do business as a result of ARR 2.0. ARR 2.0 delivers cost savings, elastic scalability, and flexible deployment options. With IIS 7.5 and ARR 2.0, customers can create a native Silverlight infrastructure and configure their CDN so that it provides superior live and on-demand media...( read more ) Read More...
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...
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...( read more ) 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 and...( 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...
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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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