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Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week

2009-11-20T18:13:44Z

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview: IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release! The IIS team shipped the final release of IIS SEO toolkit which makes it easier to optimize your Website for search engines . It acts like a mini-search engine on your computer, scans your site and then provides useful tips for how to improve...(read more)

Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released

2009-11-20T00:40:00Z

The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production-ready release that is provided under an open source BSD license , with the source code hosted and maintained here , and the documentation hosted on php.net . You can find more details on this release on IIS team Product Unit Manager Mai-lan Tomsen...(read more)

Final RTW version of WINCACHE 1.0 released

2009-11-19T22:19:39Z

I am extremely proud to announce that we have released the final RTW version of WINCACHE 1.0. Please look at the forum announcement of the same at http://forums.iis.net/p/1162808/1925444.aspx#1925444 which contains all the details about the release. I would strongly recommend everyone running Beta/RC version of WINCACHE 1.0 to upgrade to the final RTW release. If you installed WINCACHE 1.0 RC from Microsoft Web Platform Installer, you can use the same to upgrade to RTW. Upgrade from RC to RTW is...(read more)

Windows Cache Extension for PHP (aka, “WinCache”) 1.0 General Availability Today

2009-11-19T21:21:59Z

Today we announce the general availability of the Windows Cache Extension for PHP 1.0 (affectionately known as “WinCache”), which is an open source built-for-Windows caching extension to the PHP engine. You can view, contribute and download the source code for WinCache at the PHP repository for extensions ( http://pecl.php.net/package/WinCache ), where we have joined other Linux-based PHP caches . I wanted to thank Pierre Joye for his invaluable help in helping connect the IIS product team with PECL...(read more)

WinCache Extension 1.0 for PHP – Release to Web

2009-11-19T19:01:05Z

The Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP – RTW is available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is provided under an open source BSD license with the source code hosted and maintained on http://pecl.php.net/packages/wincache/ . Install the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP – RTW To install the Windows Cache Extension for PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3, use the download links at the extension’s home page at http://www.iis.net/expand/WinCacheForPhp . The installation...(read more)

IIS SEO Toolkit - New Reports (Redirects and Link Depth)

2009-11-18T23:33:00Z

In the new version of the IIS SEO Toolkit we added two new reports that are very interesting, both from an SEO perspective as well as from user experience and site organization. These reports are located in the Links category of the reports Redirects This report shows a summary of all the redirects that were found while crawling the Web site. The first column (Linking-URL) is the URL that was visited that resulted in redirection to the Linked-URL (second column). The third column (Linking-Status...(read more)

IIS SEO Toolkit - Start new analysis automatically through code

2009-11-18T06:00:28Z

One question that I've been asked several times is: " Is it possible to schedule the IIS SEO Toolkit to run automatically every night? " . Other related questions are: " Can I automate the SEO Toolkit so that as part of my build process I'm able to catch regressions on my application? ", or " Can I run it automatically after every check-in to my source control system to ensure no links are broken? ", etc. The good news is that the answer is YES !. The bad news...(read more)

IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 Final Release Available Today

2009-11-17T23:06:19Z

Today, IIS launched the IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 , a free, fully supported extension to IIS7 that makes it easy for you to build and maintain Web sites optimized for search engines and site quality. In a world where thousands of new Web sites appear on the Internet every month, it is more important than ever to provide a Web destination that is easily discoverable by search engines. Users have a tremendous amount of choice on Web sites today, and poor site quality, like slow response time and broken links...(read more)

Announcing: IIS SEO Toolkit v1.0 release

2009-11-17T21:06:21Z

Today we are announcing the final release of the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit v1.0 . This version builds upon the Beta 1 and Beta 2 versions and is 100% compatible with those versions so any report you currently have continues to work in the new version. The new version includes a set of bug fixes and new features such as: Extensibility . In this version we are opening a new set of API's to allow you to develop extensions for the crawling process, including the ability to augment...(read more)

Improve Web User Experience with IIS SEO Toolkit RTW and IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RC

2009-11-17T17:00:00Z

Remember the scene in Diehard when he shoots the glass? That was cool. What’s even cooler is now you can fine tune your Web site for the search engine, thus improving the experience for your Web users. Today, Microsoft announced the releases of IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit RTW and IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RC – both extensions for IIS. Don’t take it personally – I know it can be hard when your significant other tells you how to make improvements on something you worked hard on, let alone...(read more)

Streaming Media West

2009-11-16T18:38:41Z

This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and relatively warm weather is a pleasant change from the rain swept northwest. Today is a special pre-conference half-day workshop on Live Broadcasting with Silverlight and Windows Media , which my colleague Chris Knowlton is running. We're videotaping it for posterity and will get it posted as soon as we can. On Wednesday morning, Marc Whitten, GM of Xbox Live will be delivering the keynote at 9am...(read more)

Troubleshooting PHP Installation on Windows

2009-11-15T12:18:53Z

My PHP installation is not working? I am not able to run my PHP scripts? A simple PHPINFO page is not loading in my browser? These are typical questions I hear from users in the forum. I would still say the best way to install PHP is to use WPI as described by me here and here . I am telling this because WPI installation involves non-manual steps of installing PHP 5.2.11 or PHP5.3. However software like manually installing things are not 100% safe and are bound to fail. I am going to explain how...(read more)

Virtual Tech Days: November 11-13 2009

2009-11-15T09:47:00Z

I gave a session on IIS 7.5 for developers in the recently concluded Virtual Tech Days ... It was good to see the amount of participation and enthusiasm people had with every session being conducted. Virtual Tech Days is an online event where in every session is delivered on Live Meeting. These sessions are based on latest technology offerings from Microsoft, driven by various evangelists and product team members. Virtual Tech Days as the name suggests are completely technology driven and hence one...(read more)

Use Process Monitor to filter w3wp processes, capture user property (w/pictures) article

2009-11-15T02:38:00Z

Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp/ Hope this helps, Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Delegate Application Creation for Non-Admininistrator accounts

2009-11-12T18:37:00Z

The Web Deployment Tool provides a way to delegate application creation to non-Administrator Windows users or IIS users. This blog covers how to configure this particular delegated setting. If you have not yet set up some users, or are not familiar with remote administration, I highly recommend going through this walkthrough: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/159/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-delegation-in-iis-70/ before trying out these steps. Server Admin Steps 1. Install the Web Deployment...(read more)