June 2011 - Posts

Mango Beta2…get it while it's fresh! by Silverlight SDK

The Mango Windows Phone Developer Tools Windows Phone SDK Beta2 released today (the tools have been renamed to SDK). With the beta2 release you will see some additions to the tools like the Isolated Storage Explorer , improvements to the profiler and...
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How to Setup an Active Directory Domain-Week 26 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today's lesson covers how to create an Active Directory domain and join a member server to it. This week's topic takes a slightly different turn from the normally IIS related topics, but this is key video to help setup either a test or production...

Opening an existing live site in WebMatrix by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you have an existing web site, you can open it in Microsoft WebMatrix. There are some caveats (which I have noted below), but overall it works quite well. Let’s suppose you have a Wordpress site: 1) Start WebMatrix 2) Click Site from Web Gallery. Walk...

Command line tools for managing PHP in IIS by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The latest release of PHP Manager 1.2 for IIS now includes Windows PowerShell commands that can be used to install, configure and manage PHP on IIS 7 from command line. In addition those commands can be used to automate the configuration and management...
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June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet by ScottGu's Blog

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu...
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SQL Server JumpIn! Camp Wrap Up by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As I arrived yesterday for day 4 (the last day) of the SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , one participant said to me,“I’m starting to feel worn down.” I think that was the general sentiment of everyone that was there…and with good reason...
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Microsoft working with Joyent and the Node community to bring Node.js to Windows by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined Joyent and Ryan Dahl in their effort to make Windows a supported platform in Node. Our first goal is to add a high-performance IOCP API to Node to give developers the same high-performance/scalability...
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Using IP Restrictions with URL Rewrite-Week 25 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

URL Rewrite offers tremendous flexibility for customizing rules to your environment. One area of functionality that is often desired for URL Rewrite is to allow a large list of approved or denied IP addresses and subnet ranges. IIS’s original IP Restrictions...

Fuel Tracker sample application for WP7 now in Visual Basic by Silverlight SDK

I'm happy to report that the Fuel Tracker sample is now available in Visual Basic. Additionally, we have fixed several small issues that various people have reported, one of which prevented the application from working correctly when running under...
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IIS Community Newsletter - May / June 2011 Edition by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The May / June combined newsletter has been published. http://www.iisnewsletter.com/archive/mayjune2011.html Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - ASP.NET / IIS http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install...

Interview with Ben Waine, 2011 PHP on Azure Contest Winner by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I recently had a chance to catch up via e-mail with Ben Waine , winner of the 2011 PHP on Azure contest winner. The announcement of his victory was actually made at the Dutch PHP Conference in May, but we’ve both been extremely busy since then,...
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Looking Forward to Next Week’s SQL Server JumpIn! Camp by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Next week, Microsoft will host its second SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , and I’m very excited to be a participant (take a look at the list (below) of PHP applications and frameworks that will be represented and you will understand why!). I was fortunate...
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IISLogs.com upgraded to Orchard 1.2 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m excited to announce IISLogs (and my blog) upgraded to Orchard 1.2 . The upgrade process wasn’t too painful, I’d suggest using WinMerge to compare folders, files. This came in handy when comparing my Modules and Themes folders. One thing I found extremely...

Why You Shouldn’t Use Web Gardens in IIS-Week 24 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS’s Web Gardens are a highly misunderstood feature in IIS ever since they were first introduced in IIS 6.0. This week’s lesson discusses why it’s rarely worth using Web Gardens and why using them is often detrimental to your server’s performance. This...
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new-blog-location by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you are seeing this link, my blog link has been updated to http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield . Cheers, Steve...( read more ) Read More...
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