Agenda

• Introduction
• Announcements
• Product Highlight
• Community Highlight
• Community Links
• Forums
• Social Media
• Sponsors

Introduction

Welcome to the July/Aug/Sept 2011 IIS Community Newsletter. Summer flew by very fast.  It's been an exciting few months.   As of September 15th, 2011 Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer previews, both client and server editions.  As one who has followed IIS since 4.0, I'm interested to see the updates and improvements.  I'd be curious to hear from those who were involved in previous IIS editions like 1,2,3.

If you have an article, tips/tricks, usergroup that involves IIS or related technologies. Feel free to drop us a line at info@iisnewsletter.com

Thank you,

Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield

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Announcements

As I mentioned in the introduction.  Microsoft has released the first developer preview of Windows 8.  Here is more information to get the downloads.

Includes pic of the new IIS logo
http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield/win8-iis-8-are-available 

Web Farm Framework 2.1 – Servicing Release
Today IIS team has published a servicing release of Web Farm Framework 2 . This release contains fixes for the bugs reported in version 2.0 that was published in January this year.

http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2011/07/29/web-farm-framework-2-1-servicing-release.aspx

IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.5 RTW
IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.5 enables you to build rich IIS Smooth Streaming experiences for both on-demand and live IIS Smooth Streaming for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8227

IIS Traffic Monitor
http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1480

Training class for IIS / Windows Server 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/course.aspx?ID=6427a 

Product Highlight - Log Parser Lizard UI

Log Parser is a very powerful and versatile query software tool that provides universal query access to text-based data, such as log files, XML files, and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Microsoft Windows operating system, such as the event log, IIS log, the registry, the file system, and the Active Directory services.

Because the command-line interface is not very intuitive, we have created Log Parser Lizard, a FREE GUI tool for managing queries and exporting results to Excel and charts. In addition, I have added input filters for RegEx and log4net input log formats (with support for regular expressions) and SQL server T-SQL queries. There are some helpful examples included in the installation package to help you start using Log Parser Lizard as your query software,web log analyzer and system log analyzer.

http://www.lizard-labs.net/log_parser_lizard.aspx

Community Highlight

IIS 7 Delegate Remote Application Pool Recycling for Non Administrator
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asiatech/archive/2011/07/21/iis-7-delegate-remote-application-pool-recycling-for-non-administrator.aspx

 Criando sites no IIS 7.5 com powershell
http://iisbrasil.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/criando-sites-no-iis-7-5-com-powershell/

AsiaTech: Microsoft APGC Internet Developer Support Team.  We focus on various troubleshooting plan and solution on IIS web platform and distributed applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asiatech/

Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows
http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2011/08/hosting-nodejs-applications-in-iis-on.html

HTTP Request Lifecycle Events in IIS Pipeline that every ASP.NET Developer Should Know
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=747

IIS AppPoolIdentity and file system write access permissions
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5437723/iis-apppoolidentity-and-file-system-write-access-permissions

Debug your ASP.NET Application while Hosted on IIS
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ProcessAttache.aspx?msg=3414248

TechNet Script Center Repository - IIS
http://bit.ly/rdHNxN

Community

IIS 7 / IUSR account, SCCM 2007 client, Status messages not working
http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield/iis-7-iusr-account-sccm-2007-client-status-messages-not-working

Interesting post to solve 500.19 Network BIOS Command Limit Reached
http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield/interesting-post-to-solve-500.19-network-bios-command-limit-reached

September Netcraft survey.  It's always interesting to see what they find
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/09/06/september-2011-web-server-survey.html

Good overview of Windows 8 including IIS
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/14/windows_server_2008_overview/

Web roles under IIS Classic pipeline mode for backward compatibility
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gonzalorc/archive/2011/09/12/iis-classic-pipeline-mode-for-backward-compatibility.aspx

Analyze your Web Server Data and be empowered with LogParser and Log Parser Lizard GUI
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnalyzeYourWebServerDataAndBeEmpoweredWithLogParserAndLogParserLizardGUI.aspx

How to identify what is causing W3WP.exe high CPU usage ?
http://bit.ly/qc0ATB

How to disable the process termination by IIS when debugging
https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/devwiki/articles/Pages/How-to-disable-the-process-termination-by-IIS-when-debugging.aspx

Some Tips on IIS server Configuration for Oracle Webcenter11g
http://baigsorcl.blogspot.com/2011/08/some-tips-on-iis-server-configuration.html?spref=tw

Using the PowerShell Get-ADDomain cmdlet with an IIS Application Pool Identity
http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2011/08/10/using-the-powershell-get-addomain-cmdlet-with-an-iis-application-pool-identity/

Service Principal Name (SPN) checklist for Kerberos authentication with IIS 7.0/7.5
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webtopics/archive/2009/01/19/service-principal-name-spn-checklist-for-kerberos-authentication-with-iis-7-0.aspx?PageIndex=2#comments

Troubleshooting 403.14 error
http://iisbrasil.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/troubleshooting-http-error-403-14/

Hosting PERL on IIS 7.x thread
http://www.iislogs.com/steveschofield/hosting-perl-on-iis-7.x-thread

This is a definite must have read for anyone using IIS. Scott Forsyth's Web Pro Series continues
http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/tags/Web+Pro+Series/default.aspx

• ARR Health Checks–Week 34

• ARR Helper-Week 33

• Bindings and Rules for ARR-Week 32

• Introduction to Application Request Routing-Week 31

• IIS Shared Config–Staggered Install-Week 30

• IIS 7.x Shared Configuration–Advanced Tips and Tricks-Week 29

• IIS 7 Shared Configuration–Week 28

Forums

One of my favorite methods interacting with the community is answering questions on discussion forums. It's amazing the questions posted and it's an opportunity to learn something too! Here are a couple tidbits posted by IIS Team members.

http://forums.iis.net


In the past 3 days, the most popular thread for everyone has been
"Setting up SMTP on IIS 7".
http://forums.iis.net/p/1157046/1901343.aspx#1901343

The post with the most views is "WFF Stuck on Installing ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools".
http://forums.iis.net/p/1179560/1987599.aspx#1987599

Social Media related to IIS

Many community members share via Twitter.com and other outlets. Here are a few to get started! If you have a Twitter account, Facebook page or something, please forward to info@iisnewsletter.com or send me a direct message at hhttp://www.twitter.com/steveschofield

For those on Facebook - IIS is there, Like us!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Information-Services/7712722695

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