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With the addition of .NET Framework to Server Core in Windows Server 2008 R2 the Server Core installation option became even more appealing for those who want to use a very low footprint server for hosting their applications. Availability of .NET framework provides the following great benefits: ASP.NET support – you can now use Server Core to host your ASP.NET applications. IIS Remote Management – Server Core does not provide any user interface other than command line. But if you prefer to use IIS...( read more ) Read More...
Today IIS team has released the Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS 7.0 - Beta. The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through Brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be...( read more ) Read More...
ASP.NET Web Forms extensively use postback mechanism in order to maintain the state of the server-side controls on the web page. This makes it somewhat tricky to perform URL rewriting for ASP.NET pages. When a server side form control is added to the web page, ASP.NET will render the response with HTML <form> tag that contains an action attribute pointing back to the page where the form control is. This means that if URL rewriting was used for that page, the action attribute will point back...( read more ) Read More...
The big benefit of IIS 7 integrated request processing pipeline is the fact that all the nice and useful ASP.NET features can be used for any type of content on your web site; not just for ASP.NET-specific content. For example, ASP.NET SQL-based membership can be used to protect static files and folders. Also, ASP.NET extensibility API’s, such as IHttpHandler and IHttpModule can be used to add custom modules and handlers that would be executed even for non-ASP.NET content. IIS 6 did not have...( read more ) Read More...
After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. I’ve spent the past 4 years living and breathing IIS 7.0, from its inception, to the Vista release, and the final debut in Windows Server 2008. During most of this time, I was heads down in designing and driving the development of the product, with little opportunity to see the impact it will have in the outside world. Now that IIS 7.0 is ready, I feel it’s the right time to shift perspectives, and focus on leveraging it to make that impact. The more I learn about the problems customers solve in the wild, the more I realize how much work there still is to truly “unleash the potential” of the web server (thankfully, this is exactly what we wanted to enable through the end-to-end extensibility architecture of IIS 7.0). So, I will be leaving to help customers make the most of IIS 7.0, and start a few projects around web server performance, shared hosting...
After 5 years in development, IIS 7.0 is finished ! Personally, it is hard to believe that it is over. I remember joining the IIS 7.0 team over 4 years ago, when the project was in its infancy, to drive the design of the web server engine. I remember getting in the room with all of the senior IIS 7.0 developers, with a spec of how the web server pipeline was going to work … feeling like I was about to be eaten alive :) More reflections at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/02/28/IIS-7.0-ships_3A00_-a-trip-down-memory-lane.aspx . Read More...
After several weeks of move-related outages, mvolo.com is back online at its new home at MaximumASP. The server ran Windows Server 2008 beta 3 for 5+ months in my friend's garage without a single reboot, while the only access I had to it was through the blog's publishing interface. The new specs are orders of magnitude better than what I had before, so I am pretty excited to see the improvements in responsiveness. Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/09/23/Mvolo.com-is-back_2100_.aspx . Read More...
You may have noticed mvolo.com being unavailable at certain points over the past two days. I am in the process of moving the server across the country, and that combined with certain other toubles with the internet setup is contributing to spotty availability. Next week the server will find its new permanent home so it will start being available 24/7 once again. In the meantime, sorry for the inconvinience. Do check back soon as there are A LOT of exciting news and new stuff coming your way next week. Thanks, Mike Read More...
The march edition of MSDN magazine is live, containing my article about the IIS7 web server in Windows Vista. The article is an overview of the many features and architectural changes in IIS7, that hopefully will point people towards the specific things that they want to learn more about and try. Read more on http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/02/14/A-look-at-the-IIS7-web-server-in-MSDN-magazine.aspx . Read More...
I have finally finished moving my blog over to a self-hosted IIS7 server, where I can actually demo the technology I am writing about. Come check out the new home of www.mvolo.com ! More of this post at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/19/The-self_2D00_hosted-journey-is-finally-coming-to-an-end.aspx . Read More...
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