Mai-lan's Blog
Web and media platform, etc.
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"Real World IIS" videocast series
In the first part of the series, I am going to focus on Web downloads that help make it easy to discover, deploy and manage ASP.NET and PHP applications on IIS7. I think developers and other users will be pleasantly surprised to find out about what IIS lets you do with Web apps today.
In the second part of the series, I will talk about extensions that take the IIS Web server into new territory, from load balancing to media to server migration. We have used the IIS7 extensibility platform to open up the core Web server to all these new scenarios.
Hope you enjoy the series! We've been busy here in Redmond. :-)
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Videos of IIS sessions at MIX 2009
If you are interested, you can check out the videos of the three IIS sessions at MIX. The sessions were 75 minutes long. I will be posting some shorter videos soon on IIS.NET for demos of how different IIS extensions work, starting with Web Platform Installer and IIS Database Manager.
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PHP Installation using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer v2 Beta
If you want to easily install PHP on Windows, you can use the newly released Microsoft Web Platform Installer v2 Beta to get the public community version of PHP ((VC6 x86 non thread safe installer build) on Windows XP/Vista/Server 2003/Server 2008/Win 7 with IIS and the Microsoft Web Platform. The Windows Installer for PHP also automatically configures IIS FastCGI as part of its setup.
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Community Applications and the Windows Web Application Gallery
We launched the Windows Web Application Gallery today at MIX. Bill demoed Web Platform Installer (Web PI) and the Web Application Gallery in the keynote, showing off how selecting an application from the Web App Gallery clicks off a targeted install experience through Web PI. See Introducing the Windows Web Application Gallery for details on how developers plug into the Web Application Gallery.
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IIS At MIX 2009: 10 New IIS Server Extensions, Windows Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta
Today, at the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IIS team rolls out a whole new set of releases...ten (yes,10) new free Web server extensions with a new end-to-end story for installing popular community applications like WordPress, Acquia Drupal, and DotNetNuke on IIS.
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IIS7 in Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes new additions to the IIS7 Web server, adding fit, finish, and a few extras to the best IIS platform ever.
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TechNet/MSDN IIS7 front-end servers running 100% virtualized using Hyper-V
We get a lot of questions about best practices for Hyper-V and IIS. The answer is pretty simple so far...it just seems to work, aside from the normal overhead for virtualization on a workload. Customers are already starting to or planning to deploy IIS on Hyper-V. MS IT is the first in line and has just released a report describing their experience with front-end IIS servers on a couple of big MS web properties.
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DiscountASP.NET IIS Manager UI extensions
One of the hosters who we work with, DiscountASP.NET (an ASP.NET focused web hoster based in sunny Southern California), has just launched a beta of two new UI extensions for the IIS Manager for their customers.
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Managing CPU utilization for IIS worker processes that use FastCGI module
Since there have been several questions in the IIS FastCGI forums regarding using IIS CPU Limits feature together with FastCGI, I wanted to talk a little more about how what you should do if you are trying to control CPU while running PHP on IIS7.
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IIS7 Diagnostics for Developers talk at MIX08
I just got back from MIX08 in Vegas where I gave a talk called “Everything You Need To Know About Debugging and Diagnostics with IIS7.” It was a fun talk. There were a fewIT administrators and a whole lot of developers. When we have talked about this topic with customers in the past, we have focused on the IT administrator perspective. This time, we took it from a different angle, which is to think through when and how you would leverage the diagnostic platform as a developer.