BillS IIS Blog

A few months ago, the IIS team received the charter of taking Media Serving forward, and merged together with the Windows Media server (WMS) team.  This exciting new change at Microsoft was spurred by the fact that Video is becoming one of the most popular types of content on the Web, so what better way to ensure Web serving and Media serving work well together than to bring the engineering teams under one roof?
 
Bringing the teams together was the first step toward creating a more integrated Web and Video server, and today we're excited to announce the second step.  I'm pleased to announce that Windows Media server (WMS) Beta 3 for Longhorn Server is now available for download on the Web.  WMS is a very feature rich and popular media server, capable of live and on-demand broadcasting of audio and video.  It has many cutting edge features that no other media server can touch, which is one of the reasons it is the most popular media server around - in the enterprise and on the internet. 

One of my favorite new features which of IIS7 that we announced yesterday with the Beta 3 release is the new FTP server.   It isn't actually in the Beta 3 builds, but you can download the beta free for

Today we're very excited to announce the Beta 3 release of IIS7 as part of Longhorn Server.  IIS7 is the biggest release of IIS in the history of the product, and this beta release marks the biggest milestone for the product team.  Ever since the Vista project locked down in late summer of 2006, we've been hard at work on IIS7 getting it ready for production server environments.  We think it is ready.  And along with today's release, we have some exciting announcements to make:

Carlos and I spoke at the Microsoft Technology Summit yesterday, a conference dedicated to influential influencers who are experts in alternative platforms.  It was a really fun talk as we were able to show off how IIS7 provides a very extensive public extensibility model for adding, removing and replacing any IIS7 feature, on top of which the IIS team built the IIS product itself. 

Interested in seeing some short overview videos on IIS7?  ZDNet has published a series of 'At the Whiteboard' videos. 

Back in the early nineties, one of the first scripting languages I learned to build web applications with was ColdFusion. It was a lot of fun! In some ways it is a great way to build your first web site since it is so simple, so much like HTML, yet very powerful. I'm sure ColdFusion has come a long way since I first used it.

It's no secret that there is no way to configure logging settings in IIS7/Vista.  A PM convinced me that configuring "logging" settings on a "Developer" machine simply isn't interesting - and "if they want to do it, they can always use config". 

By popular demand, in conjunction with the DownloadCENTER release, I decided to release the famous DirListModule I originally created for IIS7 demos, several years ago.  In fact, I think it was the first real managed module that anyone on the team had built, and it has been used in hundreds of demos ever since, including BobMu's keynote at PDC in 2005.