I’m excited to announce that the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is finished and available for download.  For more information on some last minute features we added, and how to download it, see Ruslan’s blog post here:  http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/11/10/url-rewrite-module-release-to...

The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool .   MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going to want to take the time to browse the documents...

A few weeks ago I announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. Web PI makes it easy to obtain and install the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express and tons of other great IIS and other platform extensions in...

Let's face it, getting Microsoft's Web server, framework and tools installed is much more painful than it should be. Visit 10 different web sites, download a dozen different packages, install them one at a time, and maybe in a few hours you are ready to get started. And then once you've got...

In last a few weeks, the IIS team has released 3 IIS extensions updates: · URL Rewrite Module CTP1 · Application Request Routing CTP1 · PowerShell Provider CTP2 URL Rewrite Module URL Rewrite Module is a rule-based rewriting engine for changing request URL’s before they get processed...

With so many cool new capabilities in IIS7 , and even more new features coming out all the time , it's no wonder you want to move to IIS7.  But you work for The Man, and everyone knows The Man wants ROI .  He can't just let you go willy-nilly and adopt every cool new technology that...

Interested in knowing what kind of performance gains you can expect from IIS7?  Performance is a fickle beast, with so much of it dependent on your application, your hardware, configuration and tuning... it is sometimes hard to know which variables carry the most weight.  Fortunately, the Microsoft...

I hear this question a lot in the http://forums.iis.net/ , and thanks to Carlos and team's rocking Configuration Editor, figuring this out on your own is a breeze.  Here is how you can generate code for ANY IIS7 configuration change, without writing a line yourself.   1) download the IIS7...

One of the most hotly requested features for IIS is now available!  Yesterday we shipped the first technical preview of a new URLrewrite module for IIS7.  It is free for all IIS7 users and available for download x86 and x64 .  Thomas and Carlos have blogged about many of the details already...

You may have seen recent reports that have surfaced stating that web sites running on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 have been compromised. These reports allude to a possible vulnerability in IIS or issues related to Security Advisory 951306 which was released last week. Microsoft...