April 2011 - Posts

April 2011 IIS Community Newsletter has been published by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS Community Newsletter - April 2011 Edition has been published http://www.iisnewsletter.com/archive/April2011.html Cheers, Steve...( read more ) Read More...
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IIS Transform Manager Beta – Using the MP4 to Smooth Task by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Technorati Tags: Transform Manager , Media , Smooth Streaming With the latest release of the IIS Transform Manager Beta, we added a new “task” and Job Template to convert from standard MP4 files (non-fragmented) to Smooth Streaming format files (fragmented...
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This Week’s Link List (April 29, 2011) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m partial to writing, so one of the highlights in this week’s list is the podcast Elizabeth Naramore’s 2010 DPC presentation on technical writing. Other highlights are Andrew Burst’s look at NoSQL and the Azure platform and my...
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IIS Compression by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Do you want to both save money and speed the load time of your web pages? Then check out IIS's built-in compression feature. You can access it from the IIS management console: Then make sure both of these boxes are checked. There are some very rare...
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Web Farm Framework and proxy servers: Part 2 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In part 1 , I focused on how to work around situations where your WFF controller has to pass through a proxy server in order to successfully retrieve the products feed. The configuration sample I provided didn’t address another possible scenario: What...

Bad Characters to Use in Web-based Filenames by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

My good friend Wade Hilmo recently posted an excellent blog titled " How IIS blocks characters in URLs " that discusses some of the internal workings for how IIS deals with several characters in file names that do not work well in URLs. Wade...
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Sorting Azure Table Entities by Timestamp with PHP by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This is a short post that describes one way to sort Windows Azure Table entities by timestamp when using the Windows Azure SDK for PHP . The problem boils down to sorting an array of objects by a timestamp property, so the information here is nothing...
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Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data Crunchers by ScottGu's Blog

The folks over at DonorsChoose.org are running an "open data" context in April that I thought you all might be interested in! DonorsChoose is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. The difference is that the...
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Binding to Dynamic Properties with ICustomTypeProvider (Silverlight 5 Beta) by Silverlight SDK

Silverlight 5 Beta introduces a new ICustomTypeProvider interface that enables data binding to objects the structure of which cannot be known until runtime. This is a common problem when you work with data in any format from databases to metadata or XML...
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New Configuration System in IIS 7.0/7.5-Week 17 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS 7.0 introduced a completely new delegated and distributed configuration system.  This offers a number of benefits, which are welcome changes for us web administrators, but there are some gotchas. In fact, I would say that the distributed configuration...
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Silverlight 4 Documentation Updated by Silverlight SDK

The Silverlight 4 documentation has been updated--both online MSDN docs and the offline CHM. The CHM is Silverlight only and is great for fast, offline access. Online Silverlight 4 MSDN Docs Offline Silverlight 4 MSDN Documentation There are numerous...
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This Week’s Link List (April 22, 2011) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

There was a lot of good content this week. Highlights for me included the release of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3 (beta), some excellent interviews, and Chris Cornutt’s insight into the work he puts into PHPDeveloper.org… Windows Azure...
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Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

One of the demos in my Mix 11 talk " An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love " was showing how IIS Express and Visual Studio SP1 (as well as WebMatrix) can make working with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) a heck of a lot easier. If you've used...
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Web Farm Framework and proxy servers by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

While setting up a Web Farm Framework environment recently, I ran across an issue where the Platform Provisioning piece of the UI was failing to pull the products feed down. In my case, the error was:   InternetOpenUrl returned 0x80072EE7: Unknown...
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How to install Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.5 without Web Platform Installer (WebPI) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

When ARRv2.5 was released in March 2011, it was made available only via WebPI. (Release announcement is here and the explanation on the WebPI dependency is here .) Since then, I've been asked if ARRv2.5 can be installed outside of WebPI, specifically...
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