Keep watching as Cannon makes life easier for today's web developers using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.   - jorke

get it now, now now, while it lasts - http://www.microsoft.com.au/windows7 its HOT HOT HOT! Don’t for get to grab Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate - jorke

Had a couple of question this week around some issues that people were experiencing from long running PHP scripts that appear to timeout/hang and eventually stop/crash and is this problem with FastCGI or the application pool settings. Let’s take a look at the FastCGI settings in the ApplicationHost.config...

You might be getting this error on server 2008 R2 or in fact any x64 system. I’ve had a bunch of people getting this particularly on running 2008 server core R2 x64. The problem occurs when the executable you are running has not been compiled for x64 AND you haven’t installed WOW64 – yeah that’s right...

EPIC START So this turned out to be much longer than I thought - the basic goal is to utilise two of the coolest features of Window Server 2008 - Core and IIS7. The idea is to create an ultimately low footprint web server on Microsoft Windows Web Server 2008 Core and show how that can easily support...

Hasn't really changed since 2003 R2, but its all over the command line. From the start: Installation of the NFS components: start /w ocsetup ServerForNFS-Base Make a directory to store your content and ACL it appropriately for NFS - I don't recommend this as best practice, but I'm assuming we're in safe...

Does that mean Queensland will have daylight savings time? NOOOO - fades the curtains apparently... Anyway the REST of Australia is making some changes in October - that's 1 month away! - so we all need to update our servers/machines/robots to cope with the time differences. Key Action: Download the...

We've just shipped the released version for the SQL Server 2005 Driver extensions for PHP 5 - if you're running the CTP version make sure you update to this version. Get the bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61BF87E0-D031-466B-B09A-6597C21A2E2A&displaylang=en I think...

This is why I love working for Microsoft - as Nick Hodge often says "This is not your fathers Microsoft"; Sam Ramji Keynoted at Oscon about 3 very cool things: In short we've submitted code to the ADOdb DAL library to add support for our PHP SQL driver - AND under a Free Software Foundation...

check it out on IIS.NET - http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/208/fastcgi-with-php/   here are a couple of excerpts from the article that I strongly recommend: ----------- PHP Security Recommendations The following recommendations describe how to tighten security of PHP in shared hosting environment...

I had a few questions from an old colleague, Virgil , who had just built a 2008 server core machine and was having issues configuring FTP. Without asking I knew Virgil would be chasing an FTP server that would have some method of secure transport such as FTPS and pluggable authentication methods, I know...

reMIX is back this year bigger and faster than ever. I know this is old news but I'm running a little behind at the moment. Check out the website and Register now for a bargain price of $199 (Inc GST) - we are doing 1 day in 2 cities: Sydney     May 20    Powerhouse Museum   ...

via Christian This years Hosting Days is "Fast Tracking Your Success with FastLane" in a city somewhere close to you, unless you are in Darwin or Alice Springs or Cameron's Corner .... Phil and I have the first track, which is the fun track all about the HOW of hosting. Go to https://partner...

For the past few days a "Cyber attack" has been taking place and according to internetnews.com : "number of infected IIS servers at 282,000. Less than a day later, security firm F-Secure wrote its own blog entry , putting the infestation at over 500,000" and f-secure : "Performing...

Important heads up with regards to a potential privilege escalation issue when running under NetworkService – which we all know is the IIS default.... But also note that it requires native code or full trust .NET. Hosting Providers with Shared Hosting configurations should pay careful attention...

One of our local developers Dallas J Clark (Brisbane local) blogged about an article that shows PHP with a 130% performance increase on Windows Server 2008 - and of course there have been a few comments asking about the metrics of the comparison etc. So naturally I'm wading into to try and clear the...

Attended a great presentation at MIX by Tito Leverette Web Platform Architect Evangelist aka Hosting Guy from Atlanta and Rob Cameron Developer Evangelist aka Dev Guy: Bring Hosters and Developers together with IIS7 I thought they did a great job of pointing out the differences between what...

So I'm in vegas at MIX08 and have spent ages typing a post about some awesome new media delivery technologies that have been released when I noticed Chris Knowlton - Senior Product Manager and the King of Windows Media Streaming had already done it! - check it out here - http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno...

and my brain is officially full - lots of awesome stuff to talk about. But straight back to work. Now preparing for the Heroes Happen Launch - be sure to register @ http://www.heroeshappen2008.com.au/ here are the dates: Sydney: Thu 28 Feb Melbourne : Tue 4 Mar Las Vegas(MIX08): Wed 5 - Fri 7 Adelaide...

HOORAAYY! I've had many people asking me when Windows Server 2008 was going to RTM. So here it is: Windows Server 2008 has officially RTM'd!!!!! Looking under MSDN/Technet subscriber downloads you can get it now: Huge congratulations to the Windows Server team, a bit time to sit back relax and then starting...

A brand new IIS blog and a shiny new tool in tech preview. Check out the tech preview of the  Web Deployment Tool from the awesome IIS Team. This new tool is designed with migration from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0. Get it, try it, tell me what breaks, so far I've found it rock solid! - jorke Technorati...

The guys at Emantra pinged me today with a project we've been talking about for a while, and I'm stoked these guys have pulled this off! Go to their site http://iis7forheroes.com/ and get yourself some of: The first SHARED IIS7.0 web hosting in Australia! (that I know of!) Sign up on their...

(ok, that's pseudo code above and is never intended to run - just illustrate concept :) ) If you're a like me and prefer typing your commands into the run box or start bar, in Windows 2003 to connect to the console of a server using remote administration with Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) you would...

Well it all depends on what you are cramming into your request pipeline! With IIS7's modular architecture you have the ability to load only what you need to run. What does this mean - well let's look at the footprint of a worker process that has all default modules loaded, i.e. ASP/ASP.NET/CGI/Authorization...

The entire Microsoft.com web server farm - 80+ server - is running Windows 2008 using IIS7.0 for their staging and pre-production services. That is a HUGE effort and those guys are really eating the dogfood trying all that. Note that I did say staging and pre-production - What about production? well...