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IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released

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Peter Schmidt
on 9. November, 2008
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The IIS Team has released the final version (1.0) of the IIS Media Pack.

IIS Media Pack 1.0 currently includes the Bit Rate Throttling and Web Playlists extensions for IIS 7.0, which enable you to:

  • Save bandwidth costs by throttling the speed at which content is downloaded
  • Decrease network traffic by metering your media deliveries
  • Monetize media assets with Web playlists that personalize content and prevent ad skipping
  • Intelligently deliver multiple media formats from a single server, including .wmv, .flv, and .mp4 files

Rich media usage is exploding on the Web, and seventy percent of videos are delivered from Web servers. IIS Media Pack 1.0 provides media-specific IIS extensions that make Web server delivery of media simple and cost-effective. Building on the security, reliability, and manageability of IIS 7.0, IIS Media Pack 1.0 protects media assets as it increases scalability by supporting more concurrent users per server.

Bit Rate Throttling

Bit Rate Throttling lets Web server administrators meter the delivery of multiple media file types as well as data. By controlling how fast or how much data is downloaded to the client, site operators can see significant bandwidth cost savings for rich media content that has a high drop-off rate. Additionally, by controlling how much data is sent to the client, the number of concurrent users per server will increase.

Web Playlists

Web Playlists let you deliver server-controlled media playlists from your Web server infrastructure rather than using a dedicated streaming server.  They enable you to control whether clients can Seek or Skip for each media asset, which lends itself very well to monetizing your content with pre-roll and in-stream ads. Web Playlists also obfuscate the location of media assets from the end user, and prevent client-side caching of those assets.

More extensions

In the future we’ll see more extensions for IIS 7.0, this is just the beginning. A future extension would be Smooth Streaming, which enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients over HTTP.  This provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks.

Download

x86 – 32-bit version

x64 – 64-bit version

MS Web Deployment Tool – Beta 2 Released

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Peter Schmidt
on 30. October, 2008
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Microsoft has released the latest version of the new Microsoft Web Deployment Tool for Internet Information Services (IIS).

It the new wonder tool for migrating web servers and sites, in it’s current form it supports the following features:

  • Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7)
  • Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 –> IIS6, and IIS7 –> IIS7)
  • Create offline packages that can be used as backups, version control, and deployment units

The new release includes many new cool features, such as:

An all-new IIS Manager extension that enables you to create, and install packages from within IIS Manager.  Imagine being able to right click on your Web site, create an offline ‘package’ of the site and all of it’s configuration, dependencies, etc., and then roll it out over any number of servers, locally or remote.

Support for ‘delegated’ publishing, which enables Administrators to grant control to developers and Web site owners to do the packaging and publishing without being a machine administrator.

Support for SQL Server, enabling you to include SQL databases (Schema + Data) as part of your deployment, both live server <-> sync as well as offline packaging.

Integration with Visual Web Developer Express as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 10 release which will enable developers to create application packages at development/build time, which can then be deployed directly from within VS (one-click publishing to remote servers!) or offline as part of a staging process.

Download links:

For more information see www.iis.net.

Wordpress URL Rewrite on IIS 7.0

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Peter Schmidt
on 28. October, 2008
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image Found this special ISAPI “WordPress URL Rewrite”, it’s a free ISAPI application for IIS 7.0.

The features are:

  • Can run with multiple WordPress installations in an IIS Web Site (for example: / and /MyBlog/)
  • Has a configurable path Exceptions list (for example: defining /Forum as an exception would prevent any pages in this folder from being re-written)
  • Works with IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0
  • Works with WordPress 2.0 or higher
  • Easy to setup, easy to maintain

It could be an alternative to Microsoft’s own URL Rewrite module, which I’ve blogged about in an earlier post.

URL Rewrite Module

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Peter Schmidt
on 1. October, 2008
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As previously announced on my blog, Microsoft released a new version of the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 a few weeks ago. The new release is a Go Live release, so we are getting closer to the final release.

The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 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

Overview of the features:

  • Rules-based URL rewriting engine
  • Regular expression pattern matching
  • Wildcard pattern matching
  • Global and distributed rewrite rules
  • Access to server variables and http headers
  • Various rule actions
  • Support for IIS kernel mode and user mode output caching
  • Lower case conversion
  • Rewrite maps
  • Failed Request Tracing support
  • Rule templates
  • UI for testing of regular expression and wildcard patterns
  • UI for managing rewrite rules and rewrite maps
  • GUI tool for importing of mod_rewrite rules

For at full list and explanation of features of URL Rewrite Module, see this post.

 

It’s available for download:

New IIS Modules

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Peter Schmidt
on 17. September, 2008
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The Microsoft IIS Team has released a bunch of new modules for IIS 7.0. Here’s an overview of the newly released modules:

URLScan 3.0 Released

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Peter Schmidt
on 22. August, 2008
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Microsoft has released the latest version of URLScan 3.0, it’s released to web (RTW) like a lot of the other IIS modules and tools on IIS.net.

URLScan 3.0 can help block automated sql injection attacks at global or site level and it can be used with IIS 6 and IIS 7.

Download links:

More info here.

Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

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Peter Schmidt
on 6. August, 2008
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In the latest edition of TechNet Magazine there’s an interesting article about Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0 written by Mike Volodarsky.

Read the full article “Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0” at TechNet.

Microsoft MVP: IIS

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Peter Schmidt
on 1. July, 2008
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I am very happy and honored to announce that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) award for 2008, for my contributions to the Microsoft IIS Community. This is my first MVP award, so I’m truly honored. So thank you Microsoft and the people who nominated me, it’s great to be recognized!

MVP

Congrats to all the other newly and renewed MVPs!