Contents tagged with Servicing
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Vista/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
In December 2008, Vista/Windows Server 2008 SP2 beta was made public. Yes, it is the first service pack for Windows Server 2008, but it is named SP2 since Windows Server 2008 RTM is really Vista SP1. In this blog post, I will high light some of the key changes for IIS 7.0 in SP2. (For more information on SP2 in general, here is the official SP2 site.)
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IIS Extensions and servicing
This week, IIS team has released two servicing patches for the following IIS Extensions:
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Servicing via CBS (component based servicing)
In Vista and Windows Server 2008, the operating system is made up of components. In a simplest sense, a component is a small grouping of files based on a feature area, functionality, and reusability. A manifest defines how the files are grouped in a component and largely, this is something that each product group at Microsoft has defined for their own product.
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Lowering administration overhead with granular servicing of IIS modules (Part 1)
IIS 7.0 is made up of more than 40 separate feature modules. Each feature module can be installed independently, and because only the installed modules need to be managed, it helps to reduce the attack surface of the server and the administration overhead.