Microsofties are often described as “work hard, play hard” types, and that can be no truer than when applied to the IIS team . Over the last few weeks, we have been out in force to deliver the good word about IIS 7.0 and IIS Extensions at conferences Read More...

Very recently, we announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. If you remember, this is a tool that allows you to obtain and install Web server components, development tools and database technologies to implement Read More...

If you visited the new Microsoft Web Platform site yesterday, you would have noticed that we’ve performed a radical overhaul of the site, with a fresh new look and articles and media content aggregated from popular external and Microsoft sites. This new Read More...

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about IIS Extensions ? new functionality for IIS that comes directly from the development team on a continuous basis. Well this week we have two more pre-release Extensions available, and each is a “Go Live” release candidate, Read More...

In June of this year, we released a beta version of UrlScan 3.0 , which can help mitigate SQL injection attacks . Today, we’re happy to announce the final release of UrlScan 3.0 for Internet Information Services (IIS). UrlScan 3.0 is a security tool that Read More...

Microsoft published a Security Advisory today providing information for developers and Web administrators on ways in which they can mitigate and prevent SQL injection attacks . As you might have seen, there was a spate of such attacks in late April and Read More...

What a Launch Wave it has been! I've just returned from celebrating Windows Server 2008 with many of you all over the world. It was great to hear your stories and see how Windows Server 2008 will fit into many of your organizations. For those of you who Read More...

The team behind Windows Essential Business Server 2008 for midsized companies (part of the newly announced Windows Essential Server Solutions family and formerly known as "Centro") has launched a team blog here . Group Program Manager Eric Watson provides Read More...

In the course of talking to many Microsoft partners and customers, the Windows Small Business Server team has learned that there are sometimes misperceptions about the product, in many cases based on experiences with the earlier versions of SBS. In hopes Read More...

Before heading off for a few days of turkey, college football and family, a post from Mauricio Freitas caught my eye this evening. Mauricio is an admin for Geekzone, which he describes as such: Geekzone publishes news, reviews and articles on technology topics. We also have some busy forums. Geekzone is now one of the top 15 New Zealand websites in number of unique browsers Geekzone is now live on WS08 RC0 and IIS7. Very cool. I'll be interested to read Mauricio's future posts of the deployment. Heroes happen in New Zealand. Patrick Read More...

MSDN and TechNet subscribers - get your shorts on and your skateboards out!! Windows Server 2008 Technical Beta participants - slip into those bikinis and hit the pool!! That's right - the June 2007 Community Technology Preview of Windows Server 2008 Read More...

The usual news items are coing from Orlando's TechEd 2007 location. One of the biggies yesterday was IIS7 - the new web server in Windows Server 2008 - will be added to the list of roles in the Server Core installation of the OS. Volker blogged about it, and see the Q&A; here. This is a recent addition to the Server Core installation - supposedly lots of requests from web hosters and other customers to add it. Perhaps the same folks will request that .NET Framework be supported in the Server Core installation. We shall see. But for the next update of Beta 3, IIS7 and Server Core installation will allow you to host non-ASP.NET web sites and applications, with minimal services and components installed. And don't forget, there's open enrollment in the IIS7 go-live license program being offered with beta 3. Separately today, I was published in an article talking about partner adoption of some of the technologies in Windows Server 2008, namely Powershell, Terminal Services and IIS7. Thanks to Quest Software, Citrix and Monish at HostMySite.com for taking time to add their thoughts. In the same article, my colleague Steve Bell announced the new logo program for Windows Server 2008. Here's the skinny on it: Read More...

Well, it won't be in book stores until the end of May, but you can now pre-order "Introducing Windows Server 2008" from Amazon.com. MVP and technical author Mitch Tulloch wrote the book with the help of a whole bunch of experts from the Windows Server division. This book is the perfect complement to much of the activity starting to pop up from outside Microsoft. We have web hosters using the go-live license of IIS 7.0 on beta 3 to run their operations; ISV partners have customers testing their apps on Windows Server beta 3; there's news of interoperability with key features, like Network Access Protection; we're starting to see new apps from partners that leverage new features of Windows Server 2008; and we'll have the first public hands-on lab of Windows Server virtualization at TechEd-Orlando. Read More...

Please join us for this 8-part series webcast for Windows Server “Longhorn" Beta 3 in May. Webcasts will kick off with an overview of what is new in Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3. In addition, this Windows Server “Longhorn” series includes webcasts on Cluster Validation, Internet Information Services 7.0, Network Security, Branch Office, Centralized Application Access, Virtualization & Server Management. Click on calendar to register for one or for all. Read More...

Here is your chance to interact with Microsoft experts in an online text based Q&A; in real time. On May 8th, 2007, join Bill Laing-General Manager for Windows Server, Iain McDonald-Director of Windows Server Program Management, Alex Hinrichs-Group Program Manager, Joseph Landes-Director of Product Management, David Lowe-Senior Product Manager, and Ward Ralston-Senior Technical Product Manager to discuss what’s new in Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3. Learn more about how Windows Server “Longhorn” provides more control, greater flexibility and increased protection. Read More...