Thomas Deml fra the IIS team did a great presentation af TechEd 2010, with this topic.
Get pptx here and see the full presentation from TechEd Online here.
Read the IIS blog about the presentation.
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Saw some news at this Microsoft blog, about what’s coming in SP1 for Exchange 2010 regarding Exchange hosting.
It is important especially to those who are running current HMC Hosted Exchange because Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting model will replace the existing Exchange hosting in HMC.
Read the blog post.
Last week at Microsoft TechEd, SP1 for Exchange 2010 was made available to the public.
Read more at the Exchange blog.
Download it here.
Great news for the hosting community, DotNetPanel has released their DNP software as Open Source under the name Website Panel.
DotNetPanel has undoubtedly been the best .NET based Control Panel for Windows hosting, such as IIS, Exchange, SharePoint and Hyper-V.
For reason they have now decided to make it available for free under the open source license.
We are excited to announce that SMB SAAS Systems Inc. has revised the DotNetPanel codebase and posted that new code under the new name “WebsitePanel” to SourceForge.NET as an open source project.
WebsitePanel is a line-of-business application and we recognize the benefits of using an open source development model as a more agile and flexible way to meet the growing needs of the web hosting community.
This will enable the hosting and development community to directly contribute to the future of the project, ensuring WebsitePanel’s continued development as an affordable and scalable control panel for Microsoft Windows hosting.
With this change, software developers and hosting providers can now easily integrate WebsitePanel directly into their own offerings and extend the functionality and features to meet their customers’ Windows hosting needs.
For current DotNetPanel customers SMB SAAS Systems Inc. will be providing free community support for a limited time. Future new versions and product updates (including enterprise modules) and bug fixes will be available at no cost to all customers via the WebsitePanel open source project.
We encourage all our customers to move to the WebsitePanel, which will continue to be supported, and participate in WebsitePanel project at SourceForge.NET.
The software is now named WebsitePanel and it still supports a wide range of software for hosting, see the full list of supported software here.
Download the binaries directly from sourceforge.
PFDAVAadmin is still a great tool to manage public folders. It helps you do a lot of things "in bulk" that you would not easily be able to do otherwise (in a GUI). At least not as quickly and it works with Exchange 2000/2003/2007 even though it’s an old utility. However, on two different Exchange 2007 servers, I have received messages similar to this:
‘Could not expand https://localhost/exadmin/admin/mydomain.com/public%20folders/: name cannot begin with the ‘0′ character, hexadecimal value 0×30. Line 1, position 386′
I figured something was wrong with my public folder configuration, but thanks to a discussions on the web, I found that it relates to the .Net framework used by the utility. This message occurs if you do not have the Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1 installed on the server. (Exchange 2007 uses the v2.0 Framework).
Microsoft recommends using the PFDAVAdmin utility from a workstation, not from the console of the Exchange server, though. If you get this message, do NOT install the v1.1 Framework on an existing Exchange 2007 server. You run the risk of resetting some of the v2.0 Framework settings and, thus, breaking Exchange Server 2007!
So if you want to run PFDAVAdmin from the console of an Exchange 2007 server, you need to install the v1.1 .NET Framework prior to building Exchange.
Thanks to Jim McBee for highlighting this.
URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server.
The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to:
- Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications;
- Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables;
- Web site content handling;
- Controlling access to web site content based on URL segments or request metadata.
Download details URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 (x86)
Download Details URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 (x64)
More info see IIS.net URL Rewrite.
The IIS Team has released a new version on the URL Rewrite Module, ver. 2.0 is now released as Release Candidate and available for download.
Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds support for outbound response headers and content rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to:
- Replace the URLs generated by a web application in the response HTML with a more user friendly and search engine friendly equivalent
- Modify the links in the HTML markup generated by a web application behind a reverse proxy.
- Fix up the content of any HTTP response by using regular expression pattern matching.
- Modify HTTP request headers and IIS server variables.
- Modify HTTP response headers
The URL Rewrite Module is a free module from Microsoft and is supported with IIS 7 and IIS 7.5.
Read more at IIS.net.
The IIS Team has release yet another cool module for IIS 7.
Have you ever hummed the Jeopardy theme song while waiting for a Web site to download – even on a high-speed Internet connection? Sometimes the problem is OUT of your control – whether it is an Internet traffic jam, scheduled maintenance, or some other unknown cause for a delay in receiving your request to view the latest on what the stock market is doing. But sometimes the problem is IN your control – such as pre-loading worker processes at the start of the Web server or when Overlapped Recycling occurs.
IIS Application Warm-Up for IIS 7.5 enables IT Professionals to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT Professionals can ensure their Web sites are responsive at all times even if their Web sites use a custom request pipeline or if the Application Pool is recycled.
Features of the Application Warm-Up Module:
- Integration with IIS Manager
- Configuration settings are stored in the shared configuration file
- Web application pre-loading settings can be configured on a per Web application basis, allowing IT professionals to identify or create individual initialization pages according to their needs.
- Use the default or custom identities to pre-load the application.
I used to use a warm-up script by Joel Olesen, but this looks cool.
See more and download at: http://www.iis.net/extensions/ApplicationWarmUp
