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A couple of weeks ago, I put together a video walk-through of Application Request Routing.

As most of you know by now, Application Request Routing (ARR) CTP1 was released in early July.  (Download x86 here and x64 here.  Support is available via this forum.)  ARR relies on the URL Rewrite module for inspecting the incoming HTTP requests and making the routing decisions based on the rewrite rules.  These two modules work together via an extensibility point in ARR and the same extensibility can be used for routing HTTP requests via other routing logic.

This week, IIS team has released two servicing patches for the following IIS Extensions:

One of the features that has not been called out explicitly in Application Request Routing (ARR) documentations is SSL off-loading.  This is a feature in which the communications between the clients and the ARR server are done via SSL while the communications between the ARR server and the content servers are done via clear text.  In this scenario, SSL is terminated at the ARR server.

I have been asked if Application Request Routing (ARR) can be used as a reverse proxy - and the answer is YES!

Application Request Routing (ARR) was just released yesterday (July 2, 08) and I wanted to highlight some of the core scenarios that the CTP1 release enables.  (You can get more information on ARR and helpful walkthroughs here.)

Today, we are excited to announce two module releases for IIS7:

In Vista and Windows Server 2008, the operating system is made up of components.  In a simplest sense, a component is a small grouping of files based on a feature area, functionality, and reusability.  A manifest defines how the files are grouped in a component and largely, this is something that each product group at Microsoft has defined for their own product.