Darien's Dialog.. : IIS

URL SCAN 3.0... an excellent update

darien — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:30:00 GMT

I've always been a fan of URLScan, originally part of the IIS Lockdown Tool, as it gave tremendous flexibility in URL filtering across different IIS versions that didn't have these capabilities natively built in. Sure, you lost a bit of performance running...(read more)

Microsoft.com running IIS 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) now? You bet!..

darien — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:05:00 GMT

I came across a CNet article talking about the microsoft.com team running IIS 7.0 on one of the busiest web sites in the world. IIS 7.0 is an amazing web server, and now with our "Go Live" license, customers can also run IIS 7.0 in production as of Beta 3 of Windows Server 2008.

Here's the amazing interview with the microsoft.com team all about IIS 7.0.

Video: Microsoft.com Operations Team Opens Up On Deploying IIS7 Early

Oh, and if you're interested in how a super-massive web site is run (as I certainly am), get it straight from the horses mouth(s) as their MSCOM blog at:-

http://blogs.technet.com/mscom/default.aspx

And for completeness, here are the statistics from Netcraft for microsoft.com (although the IIS 7.0 results don't seem to be reflected yet):-

Netcraft stats for microsoft.com for the last 30 days

IIS 7.0 going public with IIS.NET (www.iis.net)

darien — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:44:00 GMT

I've always been a BIG fan of Internet Information Services (IIS). In my not-so-humble opinion ;-) , IIS 4.0 was the first time the "Windows Web Server" came of age, and since then I had a whole heap of requests for features that finally appeared in IIS 6.0. Our current web server, IIS 6.0, is amazing; I've blogged about Application Pools before, just to mention one of the amazing features that we've come to use everyday.

Well, in IIS 7.0, the product group is doing it all over again. You thought IIS 6.0 was a big step forward? You ain't see nothing yet. We're rearchitecting the whole web server again, and finally we can start really talking and sharing some of the great things we are doing. What's more you guys get to have glimpses of IIS 7.0 with the Windows Vista Beta 2 release and Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 2 release. Already, I'm TOTALLY excited about the new fully-customizable modular architecture, not only from an application perspective but also from a security perspective; excellent, really excellent.

So head over to our new IIS.net web site. Get the Beta's. Play with IIS 7.0 and post your comments.

Sneek Peek at IIS 7.0

darien — Fri, 27 May 2005 17:43:00 GMT

I've always loved IIS (Internet Information Server), well, since version 4.0 anyway. ;-) I think IIS 6.0 is the most amazing web server we've ever built; I mean Application Pools, Web Gardens, the XML Metabase (new auditing features recently added with Windows Server 2003 SP1, by the way), the list goes on...

But it's about to get even better, faster and more robust in IIS 7.0. Here's a sneek peek.