Want to hear more about the new IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider, a new PodCast has been released. The PodCast includes an interview with Thomas Deml a senior Program Manager in the IIS Team.
Topics of the PodCast:
Talk about the IIS7 management cmdlets
- Get/Set-WebConfiguration
- Start-WebItem
- Remove-WebConfigurationProperty
- Ability to use XPath filters
Talk about the IIS7 PSprovider
- Provider timeline – 2nd beta in June, final in October
- Features
- ability to configure IIS and ASP.net, sites, vdirs, apps, all that
- ability to delegate
- root of namespace: sites, app pools
What does the future hold (that you can discuss)
- We talk about Server Core
Find the PodCast here.
Microsoft has released a new IIS 7.0 White Paper “Migrating a Large, High-Volume Web Site to Internet Information Services 7.0″.
This white paper describes how Microsoft.com migrated more than 80 Web servers, managing more than 5 gigabytes (GB) of content in more than 750 virtual roots, to IIS 7.0. Not only did the Microsoft.com Operations team reduce the effort to manage and administer the site, but it also realized a 10 percent performance gain.
This white paper covers the:
- Business benefits achieved in deploying IIS 7.0 on Windows Server� 2008.
- Teams at Microsoft that were involved in the development, deployment, and ongoing management of the solution.
- Background on Microsoft.com, including the products and technologies used in creating the solution.
- Process that Microsoft.com Operations followed during the planning, building, deploying, and operating phases of the migration from IIS version 6.0 to IIS 7.0.
- Deployment of IIS 7.0 running on Windows Server 2008 in the Internet-facing Microsoft production environment.
- Operation of Microsoft.com after the migration to IIS 7.0.
- IIS 7.0 features and improvements that the Microsoft.com Operations team will implement in the future.
- The best practices that Microsoft.com Operations used in migrating to IIS 7.0 and Windows Server 2008.
Read and download the white paper here.
The IIS Support Team now has their own blog on the MSDN site, it will contain useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams.
Direct link here.
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Microsoft turned Live Mesh Tech Preview online yesterday. Live Mech is the newest member to the Live services from Microsoft, Live Mesh is a platform to help bring all you devices together and gives�you access to your information from anywhere. To sum up the features:
- All your devices workting together – synchronize information
- Access from anywhere – Live Desktop with 5GB of free storage
- Simple to share – Share a folder (photo or files) with family or friends
- Stay informed – See the online status of friends, updated files/devices etc.
- Protection you know – Access protected by your Live ID and SSL transfers
It doesn’t sound like the big news, it sounds more like a new version of FolderShare, but this new platform brings more�to it, than just the synchronization service.
Scoblizer has summed up all the features pretty good in his recent post, with links to videos of the new features.
Since the service is already full, you can sign up and get on the waiting list here.
Learn more about LiveMesh here�and on the official Live Mesh blog.
Jeong Hwan from the IIS Team has posted a nice little article about the new PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The article is for users who have never experienced Windows PowerShell and want to use the IIS PowerShell Provider and provides various examples.
Read his article here: Learning IIS PowerShell Provider (Step by Step).
Found a great article “Best practices when moving your site” on Google’s Webmaster Central Blog. The article describes what to be aware of, if you need to move a website from one domain to another domain.
Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site’s performance in Google search results?
Read the full article here.
Microsoft has released a web server edition of Windows Server 2008, called Windows Web Server 2008. This is a great product and the new version has fewer limitations than on Windows 2003. The memory limit has been increased (now 32GB on x64) and it’s now possible to install some applications on it, needed for web hosting, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Windows Media Services and SQL Server. SQL Server 2005 needs a hotfix to been installed on Windows 2008, read more about this in Bill Staples blog post below.
Windows Web Server 2008 is about half the price of the Windows Server 2008 Standard edition, so it’s great for hosting environments.
Bill Staples has blogged about it, read his post here.
The team behind Microsoft.com used the Web Deployment Tool for migrations from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0. Now they have released a whitepaper describing their experience.
Here the Whitepaper: “Migrating a Web Server from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 by Using the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool“.
