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I am very pleased to announce the final release of Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 , which provides a powerful load balancer and caching solution for free download onto Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. As with all the IIS Web server extensions, ARR is built by the same engineering team that brings you the IIS Web server, fully supported by Microsoft Customer Support, and will soon be localized in French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, German, and Japanese. ARR only installs on IIS 7.x, which means Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. ARR can be used to load balance requests to Windows Server 2003 and even other types of servers like Java in a Web farm but ARR itself has to be installed on a Windows Server 2008 or later server. Once you download ARR (use Web Platform Installer for an easy install), you will see a new node called “Server Farms” appear in the left tree-view of our IIS Manager administration console...
This blog outlines the basic steps for setting up IIS Manager accounts so that they may be used for Web Deployment Tool delegation. Most of the steps particular to using IIS Manager users for delegation are required for connecting remotely using the Windows Management service, so if there are already accounts set up for remote management, that work has already been done. The following steps will allow IIS Manager accounts to be used for management service delegation. Step-by-step instructions with screen shots may be found for steps 1 through 4 on this page, with their section title added in parenthesis : http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/159/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-delegation-in-iis-70/ 1. Make sure that Windows Management Service is installed ( Configuring Remote Connections in IIS Manager ) 2. Enable remote connections for IIS users ( Enable Remote Connections and Configure Identity Credentials ) The previous steps only need to be performed once, however the following...
Since the Windows 2008 Server launch last March, the IIS team has shipped a bunch of new features that plug-in to IIS7 and in parallel worked on IIS 7.5, launching today in the Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 release. IIS 7.5 includes many bug fixes, improvements and new features, and is definitely worth grabbing. If you haven’t tried IIS7 yet, check out the many reasons to try it. If you’re already using IIS7 and want to know what’s new in IIS 7.5, Mai-lan just posted an update to her blog with a nice summary. Note: the IIS Extensions which are not already included in IIS 7.5 will install and work on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2! Read More...
Ask many server administrators if Microsoft’s IIS Web server can be used with Java servers, and you will probably hear a quick “No way!” with an optional sniff or chuckle, depending on your server preference. Starting with Windows Server 2008 and later, you can set up IIS7 as the Web serving tier in a three-tier deployment to IIS or Java servers on the backend. Customers are taking advantage of this functionality today if they have an existing Java investment: Front-end IIS Web server delivering requests to backend WebLogic server running a Deltek time entry system A major insurance provider using an IIS Web server to deliver requests to TomCat application servers. The key component is IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) , which we ship as a fully supported, free Web extension for Windows Server 2008 and later. If you have Windows Server 2008 or later, ARR 1.0 gives you: IIS as an option in a three-tier configuration with WebLogic and TomCat backends. It should work with WebSphere too...
As of today, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is generally available for purchase. This latest release of the Windows operating system contains IIS 7.5, which provides a set of enhancements and new functionality on top of the IIS 7 Web server platform. Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 also marks the first release of a Windows operating system release that includes Web extensions built and refined in our rapid innovation model. See the IIS Web Extension library for the new functionality which ranges from an application request load balancer/proxy to URL rewriting to a deployment platform for Web applications and server . If you are an administrator looking for a simplified but powerful management experience , IIS 7.5 brings you: built-in, brand new FTP server and WebDav support that we initially shipped as Web extensions, revised with customer feedback and added to IIS in the Windows operating system new management console support for administering request filtering rules, FastCGI settings...
We recently released fixes for the publicly disclosed FTP vulnerabilities. One of the after-effects of applying this update will be that recursive list commands to IIS FTP 5.x, 6.0 will return the non-recursive listing. To make it clear, this feature does not exist on IIS FTP 7.x either, and that is why I did not include those versions in the previous statement. For those that will miss this feature, there is a workaround on Robert McMurray’s blog . Read More...
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS09-053 that will address the FTP vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed a couple of weeks ago. The information in this bulletin supercedes the previous advisory. Read More...
IIS Media Services 3.0 has been released and is now available as a free download for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2! Chris Knowlton has a comprehensive post on the release and all the details, here is a quick summary: IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) streaming and provides real-time logging to measure media investments. By offering a complete media delivery platform together with a traditional Web server, rich dynamic Web sites can now be managed and administered from a single Web platform. IIS Media Services offers the highest quality streaming media experience available on the Web. Server Features: With this release, the key elements of the IIS media server platform now include: · Smooth Streaming , adaptive streaming of media over HTTP · Live Smooth Streaming , for live adaptive streaming of broadcast events · Bit Rate Throttling , meters the speed that media is delivered to a player · Web...
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...
Last week was a big one for Smooth Streaming! IIS Media Services 3.0, the IIS7 media extensions pack containing Smooth Streaming, has completed its 6-month beta development cycle and has been released to Web. You can download it here: http://www.iis.net/extensions/LiveSmoothStreaming Chris Knowlton has written an excellent summary of everything that’s gone into this release. Here’s just a brief list of components: Smooth Streaming , adaptive streaming of media over HTTP Live Smooth Streaming...( read more ) Read More...
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