Steve Schofield's Blog

Handy post of features and what versions / modules are available on Windows.

If you run Windows Server 2008 R2 and NetApp appliance.  Definitely a thread to bookmark.

There is a lot of posts on http://forums.iis.net related to network performance.  Actually, there was two today!.  The problems can be different, but the common thread seems to be network performance.  Windows Server 2008 (and R2) enabled a new network feature by default which has been referred to as "Scalable Networking Pak".  Some people refer to the feature as TCP Chimney Offload.  Either way, in my experience this feature causes more issues than it solves.  If you are having a network related issue or performance, this is a easy setting to check and verify if disabling portions or all of them can resolve the issue.  

I've seen a few posts asking "How do I harden my IIS 7 machine".  Frankly, Microsoft IIS Team has done an excellent job making a IIS Admin's life much easier and doesn't require nearly as much as IIS 5 days :)  Here is a thread though that discusses some other techniques.  Thought I'd pass it along.

I was tinkering around with Windows Server 2008 R2 and ran across the Indexing Service search service. 

Scott Guthrie announced IIS Express on his blog.

Here is a great thread on how a person reported fixing a problem 500.19 error NetBios command limit and using a UNC based content architecture.

A majority of my geek time is spent at work, like most people.  It's hard to keep up on technology coming out of Redmond.   In past years, I would subscribe to several 'list-servs' on various content, then review the data when I had some extra time.  It was a nice passive way to keep up on technology and pick up on some tidbits.  I still do this for some technologies.  With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook and other ways people are sharing information.  It's not quite as easy IMO.  The group I followed are HUGE twitter users, I kind of find this noisy and hard to keep up.  Twitter has recently released 'groups' or 'lists' which you can group people.  I haven't taken time to subscribe and group people.  Anywho!