January 2011 - Posts

Understanding IIS Bindings by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Internet Information Services (IIS) uses 4 decision points for the site bindings.  They are the protocol, port, IP and host header.  This video lesson walks through the bindings and shows how each one is used. This is part 5 of a 52 week series...
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This Week’s Link List (January 28, 2011) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You might need more than a weekend to get through all of these links. My favorite is Ashay Chaudhary’s post about the journey to adding SQL Server support to Drupal 7. But there are lots of other interesting links, including webinar and conference...
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Two Great Resources from Other IIS MVPs by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I don’t often post links to posts from others, however I really wanted to highlight two great resources which two other IIS MVPs have started recently. IIS Community Newsletter Steve Schofield has recently published the first IIS Community Newsletter...
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Web Farm Framework 2.0 – Work Flow Builder & Extensibility by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

We recently released 2.0 version of Web Farm Framework. This was introduced as Beta few months ago and is now available in the RTM version. Web Farm Framework simplifies the life of people using and running web servers (particularly in multiple server...
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Paging Data with the SQL Server Drivers for PHP: Simplified by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

One of the best insights I had at the SQL Server JumpIn! Camp back in November was this: Lots of PHP applications and frameworks generate SQL queries dynamically. I’m sure that for very experienced developers, that realization comes across as somewhat...
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Webpi Command Line by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Our much loved Web Platform Installer (WebPI) now has a command line interface. Yes that’s right. Now it is possible to do everything that you could do in Webpi UI, from the commandline. Think scripting! Think automation! WebPI is a simple but powerful...
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Drupal 7 and SQL Server – our PDO journey by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Drupal 7 completed a 3-year journey earlier this year by exiting beta stages and declaring itself ready for prime time . Our team (the SQL Server Drivers for PHP team) was fortunate to be part of that journey by working closely with the Drupal community...
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How to do Skip Directives using default provider in Web Farm Framework 2.0 (WFF 2.0) by changing the applicationHost Config? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

One of the feedback that customers provided was to enable them to exclude a specific set of directories from provisioning. WFF 2.0 enables this feature and lets customer control the provisioning of the directories using its default sync provider. Default...
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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me Monday by ScottGu's Blog

Tomorrow (Monday Jan 24th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 3:00pm to 4:30pm (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want...
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IIS Community Newsletter - January 2011 edition published by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I'm excited to announce our first IIS Community Newsletter. Here is the link to the January 2011 edition - http://bit.ly/gPq0qT Sign-up for IIS Community Newsletter http://www.iislogs.com/newsletter/ Cheers, Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS......
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IIS Media 4.0, SMF 2.3, RCE 1.0 SP1 and More by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

It’s been too long since my last post, so I thought I’d get warmed up and back into blogging form by posting something about recent releases on the Microsoft media platform. After PDC 2010 in November which focused on new web technologies...
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Get IIS bindings at runtime without being an Administrator by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today there was a question in StackOverflow asking whether it was possible to read the IIS binding information such as Port and Protocols from the ASP.NET application itself to try to handle redirects from HTTP to HTTPS in a way that was reliable without...
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How to integrate F5 with Web Farm Framework? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Overview Web farm framework ships with runtime extensibility. You can write your own providers (you can learn more about extending Web farm framework here ) and they will be treated as first class citizens of the framework. You can take advantage of the...

IIS Express Bootstrapper Package by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As I mentioned in a previous post , the IIS 7.5 Express MSI can be redistributed with your software package. This is enabled by the license agreement so you don’t need any additional approval. When your software is being installed on a customer’s machine...
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This Week’s Link List (January 21, 2011) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Whew! Friday…made it! Once again, lots of interesting content out there this week. Instead of simply listing a bunch of links, I’m experimenting this week with categorizing some of them. Hopefully, this will help you find stuff that YOU find...
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