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

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:13:44 GMT

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 the relevance of your site to search engines. This tool is now out of beta and available for download through Web PI . ASP.NET MVC 2 beta! The ASP.NET team has been hard at work on the second release of MVC, which is now available to beta test. Phil has a great blog post on the release with links to the download page, readme notes and the source code . There are a bunch of new features in MVC 2 including AsyncController, expression based helpers, improvements...(read more)

Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:40:00 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

Final RTW version of WINCACHE 1.0 released

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:19:39 GMT

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 supported through WPI. If you have installed WINCACHE 1.0 RC/Beta manually, you will need to install the new binaries manually. Here are the steps: Download appropriate bits from http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/wincache/ If you are running PHP 5.2.* you will need to download 'wincache52.exe' If you are running PHP 5.3.* you will need to download 'wincache53.exe' Run the executable from the saved location. If you are on Vista+ OS, I would advise you to run the executable as...(read more)

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

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:59 GMT

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, and for agreeing to host the WinCache binaries on http://windows.php.net . We cordially invite the PHP development community to join us in development of this caching extension for PHP on Windows. We already have gotten one contribution from the community in our pre-release mode and are very excited to have others join this new PHP on Windows caching community. The IIS team at Microsoft is going to start off the v2.0 development by adding a user cache and lazy class loading to the opcode cache...(read more)

WinCache Extension 1.0 for PHP – Release to Web

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:01:05 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

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

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:33:00 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

IIS SEO Toolkit - Start new analysis automatically through code

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:28 GMT

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 is that...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 Final Release Available Today

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:06:19 GMT

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, will end up costing you site visitors and visits. Developers and site administrators can download the IIS SEO Toolkit today using Web Platform Installer or directly from the Microsoft Download Center , and start optimizing any Web sites on Windows (ASP.NET, HTML, ASP, or PHP). The IIS SEO Toolkit installs and runs on IIS 7.x , which is the Microsoft Web server shipped as part of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you are a site administrator , you...(read more)

Announcing: IIS SEO Toolkit v1.0 release

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:06:21 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

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

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

Streaming Media West

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:41 GMT

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 and on...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Troubleshooting PHP Installation on Windows

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:18:53 GMT

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 to troubleshoot your PHP installation. However the first suggestion is to use WPI to install it. Following this troubleshooting will be simple if you have followed my way of installing PHP. And yes, this troubleshooting is for IIS with FastCGI and Non Thread Safe version of PHP. This troubleshooting is not for PHP running with IIS in ISAPI mode. We recommend that PHP on IIS should use IIS FastCGI with Non Thread Safe version of PHP if you are running XP or XP onwards Operating System. I would like...(read more)

Virtual Tech Days: November 11-13 2009

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:47:00 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

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

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:38:00 GMT

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

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:37:00 GMT

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 Tool (MSDeploy) Use the Web Platform Installer (can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx ) Run and choose Web Deployment Tool 1.0 and click Install. This will also pull in any dependencies you don’t already have on your system. NOTE: This might take a while if you are missing a lot of dependencies (particularly the Windows Installer 4.5 – as this may require a restart) 2. Launch Inetmgr Click Start and type inetmgr. Press Enter. 3. Open Management Service...(read more)