Microsoft published a Roadmap for the future of Application Center 2000 a few months back. It’s quite interesting reading for current users of AppCenter 2000.
We have done a significant amount of scenario research to understand both how customers are using Application Center, and the capabilities available in other Microsoft® products and components that can deliver on the Application Center scenarios. This functionality will be delivered through a combination of the System Center family of products and the core Windows® Application Server platform.
Read the Roadmap for Application Center.
A while back Scott Forsyth wrote this great article on how to use DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2 for content replication in a webfarm.
At ORCS Web, we’ve recently started to use DFS for some of our high availability offerings that use a central NAS (Network Attached Storage) content server. We’re using DFS for handling the content server, both for replication and for automatic failover to a backup server in the event of maintenance or a server failure.
Read the full article DFS for Webfarm Usage – Content Replication and Failover.
Microsoft has published an online demo, where you can get familiar with the newest features of the latest Windows SharePoint Services version.
Watch this demo to see how a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site can be your team’s communication center. See how you can use documents, lists, wikis, and blogs to track, store, and share information. Take a look at how search capabilities, multiple navigation options, and RSS make it a snap to find what you’re looking for, and how version control and document recovery help ensure that team members stay on top of their information.
See the demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.
Scott Forsyth has written a great article on using the built-in IISCnfg tool for IIS Metabase replication.
Microsoft provides a tool called IISCnfg for management of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Settings. One of the features that this includes is the ability to replicate the IIS settings from one server to another. This is useful in a webfarm environment where you require all web servers to be in sync.
Read the full article on IIS Settings Replication.
Together with the Office 2007 release last week, Microsoft has now made Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 available to users of Windows Server 2003.
You can download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using the links below. Please note the different links for standard (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions.
For Important Installation Notes: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/download.mspx
What’s New for IT Professionals in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/ddf4f8a5-fae8-42c0-bb16-e5f96e9546311033.mspx?mfr=true
Compare WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0 going through this document http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techref/versions.mspx
For more information check the sharepoint blog.
Windows PowerShell 1.0 has been released during Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona.
For those of you who doesn’t know PowerShell yet, it’s Microsofts next-generation commandline shell designed from the ground up to be flexible and powerful while still remaining easy to use.
Windows PowerShell is supported on multiple platforms (x86, x64 & Itanium) and by multiple language technologies (English language, Localized and Multilingual User Interface).
Download Windows PowerShell 1.0
Source: PowerShell Blog
Microsoft Windows Vista and the Office 2007 has been made available to MSDN Subscribers.
Windows Vista and Office 2007 is expected to be available through MSDN Subscriber Downloads within 7 days of release to manufacturing (RTM). The MSDN Subscriptions team is committed to making new content available to subscribers as soon as is practical.
Source: MSDN
Stumpled across this mod_rewrite for IIS 6.0, I haven’t tried it myself yet. But if you are interested in a FREE URL Rewriter for IIS, this might be a good option?
IIRF is a small, cheap, easy to use, URL rewriting ISAPI filter that combines a good price (free!) with good features. It is reasonably fast, and reasonably powerful. You can get the source code to inspect it or modify it yourself if you desire. If you use IIS, you can download IIRF and get started right now. Or, Visit the IIRF Forums to ask a question.
Read more and download at source.
