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MVP's provide information about how they have been active in their respective community.   Here is some stats I calculated since 10/1/2008.  Since joining the IIS community three years ago as an MVP (I was previously an ASP.NET MVP).  Microsoft has focused on making the IIS community as dynamic as ASP.NET.  IMO, they've succeeded and it continues to grow.  Kudo's to the IIS team for providing a secure, dynamic platform in IIS 7.x.  The additional modules, thriving community portal site (www.iis.net)    I can see this continuing to grow.  It's fun to share my knowledge, learn new things and be part of a exciting community! 

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Per an annoucement by Ruslan from the IIS team   Keep up the great work.

I started hanging out in the newsgroups again, along with the forums at http://forums.iis.net  I ran across a particular interesting post by Alun Jones (Security MVP and maker of WSFTPD).   There are a fair amount of posts on http://forums.iis.net about FTP, some are confused by Active, Passive, and SSL settings. His posting in the newsgroups described this very clearly. (IMO).   What people are confused about is how Active, Passive connections are handled.

Here are my experiences about using the SEO toolkit by the IIS team.   I had a few sections I wanted to improve for search engines, using the SEO toolkit, it identified over 700 found errors.  I've reduced to 187 individual items, of which is tied to a few articles that need some reformating.   The articles will get touched up, which mostly are HTML markup.   This was VERY helpful in identifying items on my website (www.iislogs.com)   

Here is another thread on forums.iis.net that discusses UNC content, IIS 7 and Samba. 

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit provides a set of tools that can be used to improve Web site’s relevance in search results by making the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis of site's structure and content and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.

I had a post the other day on forums.iis.net that I did some research and wanted to share.  It was regarding Application Pool warm-ups.  Currently, there is no settings to help after a recycle, crash of an app pool etc.  http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/#_Toc223325464   ASP.NET 4.0 has some configuration posted here.  I know IIS 7.5 will have the plumbing to support this.   A few searchs on the internet (Google, Live) shows there is plenty of Sharepoint warm-up scripts and ideas.  Sharepoint is dreadfully slow on warm-up.   Here are a couple of handle links I found.