Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Internet and Unified Communications technology by Peter Schmidt [MVP].
Microsoft has finally released the new version of Virtual PC 2007. It’s available as free download from their website.
Use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between virtual machines with the click of a button. Use virtual machines to run legacy applications, provide support, train users, and enhance quality assurance.
It’s available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
Read more and download at source.
Microsoft has released a new tool for IIS diagnostics called Trace Diagnostics. It’s a Diagnostics tool to assist in using Enterprise Tracing for Windows (ETW)
Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 has very detailed diagnostics information built in. With Trace Diagnostics, you can effectively use these diagnostics built-in by monitoring the requests to an IIS web server in real-time, or, follow a request throughout the IIS processing pipeline to find failures.
Included in this download are three individual tools:
1). Request Viewer
2). IISREQMON.exe
3). IISTRACE.exe
Read more and download at source.
Microsoft has announced several new webcasts about IIS 7.0.
Read more and attend them at IIS.net.
Microsoft has published a whitepaper on Windows SharePoint Service v3 hosting solutions.
SharePoint v3 offers a lot of great features and functionality for hosters and this whitepaper talks about how to use these features to create a shared hosting solution. The whitepaper is built upon lessons learned from a dozen or so hosting partners conducted over the past several months. The guide includes things like ways to deploy SharePoint, how to use forms authentication with SharePoint, how to provision SharePoint sites, migration from WSS v2 to v3 and even a section about deployment issues in hosting scenarios.
Download the whitepaper: Creating Shared Hosting Solutions on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
Microsoft has annonced an updated Technical Preview 2 version of FastCGI.
The current FastCGI Technical Preview 2 release addresses most of the compatibility issues reported by the community for the original preview release, and is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.
The FastCGI component is part of the collaboration between Microsoft and Zend to improve performance and stability of PHP on the Windows platform.
Read more and download at IIS.net.
