Agenda

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

Introduction

Welcome to the November 2011 IIS Community Newsletter edition.  It's holiday season here in the states, Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving and Happy New Year! 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

IIS Media Services 4.1 released!

A new release of IIS Media Services is available that adds support for REST services API's for management of publishing points as well as performance improvements for both on demand and live scenarios. Full details on how to take advantage of the performance improvements will be detailed in a later blog post. Capabilities supported via the REST services include the following:

Creation & deletion of publishing points
Enumeration of all web site publishing points
Querying and updating publishing point settings and state
Querying publishing point statistics

http://blogs.iis.net/akucer/archive/2011/11/09/iis-media-services-4-1-released.aspx

The Importance of the File Format for Adaptive Streaming

When it comes to adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP, file format really does matter. The fragmented MP4 (fMP4) file format, first used by Microsoft, is the basis of IIS Smooth Streaming, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming, and two industry streaming standards. fMP4 files have some distinct advantages over adaptive streaming solutions based on MPEG-2 Transport Streams, such as the proprietary HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) format developed by Apple.

http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/archive/2011/11/18/the-importance-of-the-file-format-for-adaptive-streaming.aspx

Product Highlight

SEO ToolKit

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.

More information
http://www.microsoft.com/web/seo

Download
http://www.iis.net/download/seotoolkit

Forum
http://forums.iis.net/1162.aspx

Community Highlight

What Every SEO Should Know About IIS
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis

How to launch a process with CPU affinity set
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/santhoshonline/archive/2011/11/24/how-to-launch-a-process-with-cpu-affinity-set.aspx

Useful WinDBG commands for IIS Debugging
http://alex.olivierdigital.com/2011/11/useful-windbg-commands-for-iis-debugging/

MSDN Flash feature article: IIS 7 and Web Application Management Overview
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2011/05/05/msdn-flash-feature-article-iis-7-and-web-application-management-overview.aspx

Enabling Support for 32-bit IIS Applications in Windows Azure
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zxue/archive/2011/10/31/enabling-support-for-32-bit-iis-applications-in-windows-azure.aspx

Community

Track down IIS application issues with Microsoft DebugDiag
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/track-down-iis-application-issues-with-microsoft-debugdiag/4775

Gerenciando backup no IIS 6.0 com iisback.vbs (pt-BR)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5339.aspx

IIS 6: Virtual Directory Aliases
http://www.experts-exchange.com/viewQuestion.jsp?linkID=xbRpMuqpELZTmQPz41HCMA==&sharedLinkID=SIbZCUMPWtw=&cid=2035

WCF Tutorial - Hosting
http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/~mossakow/materials/presentations/wcf.3.5/hosting/index.html

Using WebDAV with IIS
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/WebDAV-IIS.html

Building real-time web apps with WebSockets using IIS, ASP.NET and WCF
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/SAC-807T

Server Defender
http://www.port80software.com/products/serverdefendervp/

Here's why you should be happy that Microsoft is embracing Node.js
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/nov/09/programming-microsoft

How to Use HTTP Detailed Errors in IIS
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/267/how-to-use-http-detailed-errors-in-iis/

AllowDefinition MachineToApplication Beyond Application Level Error
http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2011/11/allowdefinition-machinetoapplication.html

How to stop IIS 7 from blocking/stomping-on the response body generated by an ISAPI Filter
http://forums.iis.net/t/1146653.aspx

ASP.NET 4.0 has not been registered on the Web server.
http://devexpp.blogspot.com/2011/11/aspnet-40-has-not-been-registered-on.html

How to Install PHP 5.3 FastCGI on Windows 2008 IIS 7
http://www.iishacks.com/2011/02/14/how-to-install-php-5-3-fastcgi-on-windows-2008-iis-7/

Set IIS Log fields in C#
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2011/11/02/set-iis-log-fields-with-c.aspx

Hosting xbap in IIS
http://blogdomainhosting.info/3024/hosting-xbap-in-iis/

Windows Azure with PHP
http://microsoftfeed.com/2011/windows-azure-with-php-configure-iis/

Wordpress 3.x on IIS 7.x with Unicode Permalinks - Problem SOLVED!
http://q.nett.gr/post/2011/11/20/Wordpress-3x-on-IIS-7x-with-Unicode-Permalinks-Problem-SOLVED!.aspx

Web Platform Installer v4 command line (WebPICMD.exe) Preview Release
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1072/web-platform-installer-v4-command-line-webpicmdexe-preview-release/

Getting Started with IIS Manager
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/113/getting-started-with-iis-manager/

Herramienta appcmd para configurar nuestro IIS de las máquinas de Windows Azure
http://www.returngis.net/2011/11/herramienta-appcmd-para-configurar-nuestro-iis-de-las-maquinas-de-windows-azure

Making HTML5 Video work with IIS Express
http://geekswithblogs.net/ranganh/archive/2011/11/03/making-html5-video-work-with-iis-express.aspx

Hosting WCF NetTCP on IIS WAS
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/prathul/archive/2011/11/28/hosting-wcf-nettcp-on-iis-was.aspx

What is the Fastest Webserver?
http://www.webperformance.com/load-testing/blog/2011/11/what-is-the-fastest-webserver

HTTP 500.21 and IIS 7.0 (64 bit)
http://www.evermind.it/2011/11/30/iis-7-on-server-64-bit-http-error-500-21/

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

• Change Password vs. Reset Password-Week 42

• URL Rewrite city.domain.com to domain.com/city

• Line Numbering in Notepad-Week 41

• Resolving Blocked Ports Through Windows Firewall-Week 40

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
Can requests appear to come from the original client?

http://forums.iis.net/p/1154878/1892052.aspx#1892052

The post with the most views is

Web Server and Live Streaming
http://forums.iis.net/p/1183566/2004430.aspx#2004430

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 http://www.twitter.com/steveschofield

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