BillS IIS Blog
Bill's blog on IIS and the Microsoft Web Platform
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Web Farm Framework 2 now available for free download
Yesterday we shipped another awesome piece of software, this time for those who make their living running groups of Web servers. Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product. Web Farm Framework enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across your cluster, and also makes it easy to synchronize content, configuration and other resources associated with your ASP.NET or PHP applications.
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Now available: WebMatrix
WebMatrix is now available in final release form. :)
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Final beta releases of WebMatrix and MVC3 now available!
I just got off stage at TechEd Europe in Berlin where I announced the availability of the final beta of WebMatrix and MVC 3! What a blast! If you haven’t checked out WebMatrix or MVC 3 yet, now is a great time to do it.
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IIS Media Services 4 released
Last week my team delivered another amazing update to IIS Media Services with the announcement of general availability of our 4th major release.
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Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta released!
Last week my team released a super powerful update to our Web Farm Framework project aimed at dramatically simplifying the complexity of managing a Web farm (many computers running one or more Web sites).
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How to Install IIS7 on Windows XP
Ever since IIS7 shipped in Vista I’ve been asked the question: how can I install it on Windows XP? Until now, that hasn’t been possible. With the recent release of WebMatrix, you can now install IIS Developer Express – which is based on the latest IIS7x codebase - on any supported Windows operating system including Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1+, Windows XP SP3+, Windows Server 2003 SP2+, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Announcing WebMatrix – a small, simple and seamless stack for Web developers
Today my team launched an exciting new project called WebMatrix.
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Lots of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week
Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview:
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IIS 7.5 Launched with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2
Since the Windows 2008 Server launch last March, the IIS team has shipped a bunch of new features that plug-in to IIS7 and in parallel worked on IIS 7.5, launching today in the Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 release.
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ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 are here!
The ASP.NET and Web tools for Visual Studio teams have been cranking away on this release all year long and we’re excited to launch Beta 2 today! MSDN subscribers can download it today…it will be available for everyone on Wednesday.