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New web deployment tool is available

Hey everyone, long time since the last blog post but we're still here and we have some great news to report. The IIS team just released the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool on www.iis.net . It is a command-line tool that provides support for deploying, synchronizing and migrating IIS 6.0 and 7.0. It supports moving configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a web server. You can choose to sync a single site or the entire web server. It's pretty flexible, as you...( read more ) Read More...

Go live with IIS 7 today!

The IIS team has announced that Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" Server Beta 3 has reached a high level of quality and is ready for your testing. You can test awesome new hosting features in IIS 7 and roll it out for beta hosting. Find out how to get the bits!...( read more ) Read More...

FPSE on IIS 7 Longhorn

An update from Robert about FPSE: "Because Microsoft realizes that the FrontPage Server Extensions are essential to many web hosting companies, the Internet Information Services product team is researching the development of an updated version of FPSE 2002 that will work with Microsoft Windows codenamed "Longhorn" and Microsoft Windows Vista." http://blogs.iis.net/robert_mcmurray/archive/2007/02/08/frontpage-server-extensions-on-vista-and-longhorn.aspx ....( read more ) Read More...

SharePoint v3 templates - the fantastic 40

The new SharePoint templates have arrived. To provide a complete solution, especially for small businesses, SharePoint v3 offers these pre-packaged templates. Each one solves a business problem and offers not only a fully functioning site out of the box, but also allows for customization so you can differentiate what you offer. If you don't have SharePoint in your environment yet, maybe it's time! To get the technical deployment details, read the whitepaper we just blogged about at http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM102157711033...( read more ) Read More...

SharePoint (WSS v3) Guidance for Shared Hosting

SharePoint v3 offers a lot of great features and functionality for hosters and this whitepaper talks about how to use these features to create a shared hosting solution. The whitepaper is built upon lessons learned from a dozen or so hosting partners conducted over the past several months. The guide includes things like ways to deploy SharePoint, how to use forms authentication with SharePoint, how to provision SharePoint sites, migration from WSS v2 to v3 and even a section about deployment issues...( read more ) Read More...

Do you want to get your data from SQL Express (mdf) to a SQL Server database?

There's a new tool available from the SQL team that helps you transfer your data from a local SQL Express file to a hosted SQL Server database. We've all heard customers asking how to get their local mdf into their hosted database. Now there is an answer. Here's the tool: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=sqlhost&title=Database%20Publishing%20Wizard Here's a blog post from the SQL team: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserver/archive/2006/10/16/sql-server-hosting-toolkit-launched.aspx...( read more ) Read More...