Last year at ZendCon 2006, I was invited to be a part of the Microsoft and Zend announcement initiating technical collaboration with the PHP community to significantly enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS...

The IIS7 community is growing!  There have been a number of really cool things going on in the community around IIS7.  Here are some of my favorites:    New Web Control Panels for IIS7! I was very excited to see two new control panels for IIS7 hit the market this past month. ...

After 4+ years of development, the IIS7 project is now complete. Today we signed off on the final build of Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1, both of which include our final build of IIS7. IIS7 is the biggest and best release of IIS ever, and it would not have happened without the hard work and dedication...

Today marks the official product launch of Windows 2008 and IIS7, a capstone to 5 years of engineering work to create the best Web server on the planet. IIS7 is the foundation of Microsoft's Web platform, and offers many exciting new advancements in Web serving technology: Easier to Manage: IIS7...

One of the best parts of being on the IIS team is shipping great software.  First there was IIS7, now you can expect to see lots of great extensions for the best Web server in the world that plug-in seamlessly using the new IIS7 extensibility model.  When IIS7 launched, we also shipped several...

IIS7 includes an all-new distributed configuration option, which allows for IIS7 configuration to be stored in web.config files, along with asp.net configuration, to be deployed with your content.  This makes transferring IIS7 configuration from your Vista PC to your hosted server as easy as copying...

Won's recent post on possible configuration corruption caused by OneCare/Forefront reminded me of something that every IIS7 customer should know about: how to backup and restore IIS7 configuration! No matter whether your configuration file gets corrupted, you make changes you decide to roll-back...

Ever wanted to add a custom mime type to your Web server?  I ran into this issue the other day when I tried to serve up .mp4 files from my Web server and duh, I got this error: 404.3 error - mime type missing! Why does IIS block requests for unknown mime types?  Well, unlike some web servers...

One of the things I'm most excited about Windows Server 2008 is the new Web-focused version of Windows called Windows Web Server 2008.  It is a special, low-priced version of Windows (only $469 retail, half the price of Standard edition and available anywhere Windows Server is sold) that is...

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...