Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Internet and Unified Communications technology by Peter Schmidt [MVP].
Microsoft has release a PodCast with Bill Staples taking about the release of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0 in Windows Server 2008, which delivers a completely modular, extensible Web server with expanded application hosting, while retaining excellent compatibility and solving key customer challenges.
Hear the PodCast from source.
Mike Volodarsky has done a blog post about the IIS 7.0 Configuration Anatomy.
If you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS metabase paths. You know, the ones that look like LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT. These metabase paths serve as a mechanism to identify a part of the IIS website hierarchy, or a url therein, for the purposes of read/writing their configuration settings. For example, the server uses these paths at runtime to retrieve the settings for a particular site, virtual directory, or url in your website, and you use them to manage those settings for your site/virtual directory/url using tools like adsutil.vbs.
Read his post at Mike Volodarsky’s ServerSide.
These two posters, originally published in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, provide a strong visual tool to aide in the understanding of various features and components of Windows Server 2008. One poster focuses exclusively on powerful new Active Directory technologies, while the other provides a technical look at a variety of new features available in Windows Server 2008 (such as Server Core, Network Access Protection, and ofcourse the IIS 7.0 component.
Download the Posters here.
Windows Home Server has now been released to manufactoring.
Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). We have finalized the software and now handing it off to our OEM partners. The evaluation version (with 120 day evaluation period) and the system builder version are also heading into the distribution channels and will be available in the next couple of months. French, German and Spanish versions will be finalized shortly, and OEM products will hit retail shelves this fall.
Read more at source.
Announced at the Microsoft World Partner Conference, the launch date for Windows Server 2008 is set for February 27th 2008.
Microsoft said it will launch the product, which it has said will be finalized before the end of the year, at an event in Los Angeles on February 27. The company will also launch Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 at the same event. The new operating system, formerly code-named Longhorn Server, includes the PowerShell scripting language, role-based deployment options as well as network access protection features. The code for Windows Server 2008 is still set to be finished by the end of the year.
