BillS IIS Blog

Since my last post introducing the bleeding edge IIS7 hosters who started offering free hosting on Beta 3, several new Web hosters joined the mix, including gate.com, parking.ru and myhosting.com who went live today!  If you're looking for a free Web site and want to check out the new features of IIS7, sign up with one of these hosters now!  The complete list of hosters can be found on the goLive page. 

The www.Microsoft.com guys have been running IIS7 on some of their servers since early beta days, but I was excited to get an email this week which announced that they are running IIS7 on all of their servers!  (except for a single box which they use to do comparative studies with). 

A new video has been posted up on the Virtual TechEd site called the IIS7 Customer Experience, featuring Mario Juarez, Eric Woersching, Jess Coburn and Carlos Caneja. 

Scott Seely just published a 30 page whitepaper on IIS7.  It includes a great overview of many of the new IIS7 features and architecture, along with lots of great code samples for .NET developers.  This is especially helpful if you're looking for more information on .NET integration with IIS7 and how to take advantage of the new integrated HTTP pipeline. 

Today at TechEd 2007, Bob Muglia announced the availability of IIS7 on Server Core in Windows 2008 Server, starting with the upcoming CTP and RC1 releases.  We've added IIS7 on Server Core as a result of a lot of customer demand to make it available on the lowest footprint Windows server ever.  See Microsoft's PressPass for what Bill Laing has to say about this announcement. 

Today marks the start of TechEd 2007 in Orlando, FL.  Eight brave IIS team members are braving the sun and are there with a record-setting 12,000 other people learning about the latest Microsoft technologies.  This is a very big year for IIS at TechEd, and we have lots of goodies for those of you who are there.  For anyone who isn't there, we plan on posting our sessions up on IIS.net in the future, so watch out for them!

James posted in his blog an exciting new opportunity I can't pass up talking about: IIS Evangelist. This key position provides the right person an opportunity to work closely with the product team to ship IIS7 to the world later this year and make it the world's most popular Web server. If you love IIS7, and want to spend your days (and some nights! :)) hanging out with the product team, traveling the world talking about IIS and helping customers get IIS7 deployed, contact him. I should also mention, the IIS team is hiring Program Managers, Developers, and Testers as well! If you want to join this elite Microsoft crew in designing, coding, testing and shipping the Web infrastructure that runs the internet, contact me.

I've seen several posts asking the question:  how do I turn off the "verify file exists" setting on handlers / script maps in IIS7.  I must admit, this seems to not be as  straightforward as it should be.  Hopefully this post helps you out.