I am VERY excited to announce the launch of a new *SPARK program at Microsoft for Australia; WebSiteSpark you’ll see that the gu has already post about this. WebSiteSpark is aimed specifically at those who are developing in the web platform and we’re...

This is by far the quickest and easiest way to install IIS7 on Windows Server 2008, and even better - you do it via the command line! To install IIS7 on a brand spanking new build of Windows Server 2008 simply do the following: For a default install ...

Check out the story of the Lone Server , the last Windows 2003 server in the Microsoft.com web farm. Such a sad story...   Make you make him your friend on Facebook he's feeling pretty lonely. Are there anymore Lone Server 's out there? let me know...

Heaps of IIS7 webcasts coming up, great if you like staying up and playing in the early morning as that's when these webcasts will be aussie time but if you don't mind waiting a little while they should be archived and you can watch them at your leisure...

Just finished doing a presentation with the Bronwen and John from SoulSolutions to a group of secondary school teachers in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT - they did some rocking demos around data management in Virtual Earth and an awesome...

"Learn it First > Deploy It First" UPDATED!: When? Tuesday 6 Nov 2007, 8.30am & Wednesday 7 Nov 2007 8:30am Where? Sydney: Clifton and Associates - Sydney CBD, Level 2, 200 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000 Link to Register...

Another event down REMIX08 - two cities on week - what a blast. Check out Michael Kordahi's wrap up of the event -  Shane Morris doing the artwork, all seemed very Penn and Teller to me. err and excuse my shaky hands, i was TIRED! Both venues were...

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! ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

This works on Vista and Windows 7. Most Windows Mobile devices can be used as a network device to connect to high speed wireless networks such as Telstra NextG , by allowing Internet Connection Sharing on the Mobile Device while connected over USB. Unfortunately...

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...

Nick Hodge and I have been talking to our local Open Source communities for the past year and we’ve finally managed to get some traction to hit the road   Sam and Max style in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Microsoft and Open source? Isn’t that...

So FINALLY we can talk about a project that’s been happening for a while now. I’ve picked up a job for Tech.Ed 2009 as overall infrastructure guy so i’ve been working on ensuring that we have the best technology to deliver and awesome event. Aside from...

For those that have visited my session at the hosting days "Silverlight for Web Hosters" here are the example sites that I used in the presentation. Big Brother 08 - http://www.bigbrother.com.au/live-stream-sl.htm ABC - http://shop.abc.net.au...

I can't get enough of the Halo 3 action at the moment, even though I don't even own an Xbox. Check out these live action videos that Mattbat (Top Microsoft TAM) sent through me earlier in the week. Now that Halo 3 has gone gold there is a lot happening...

If you want to host Silverlight on a web server that isn't IIS7, such as IIS6 which is the second best web server in the world (2nd to IIS7 :) ) you'll need to add the MIME types to support the correct content type interpretation by the browser. In the...

Well I'm in Seattle for our internal tech conference, TechReady with heap of other aussie DPE folks; Jeffa , Kleefy , Barnesy , Coatesy (visiting before going to the Office Developers Conference), Rog , Nils and of course Frank is omnipresent :) Really...

the shear brain power of having 6000 geeks in one location with thousands of session on the coolest technology arround.. how to describe.. its amazing and my brain is now full! Had to take break last night so after a quick run around @ 'asking the experts...

Launch of SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and most importantly Windows Server 2008 ! I'm part of the launch event in the server track - presenting the session : It's a click and go world { accelerate it! } Where I spend my time looking at configuring Windows...

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 ...

This is very interesting and fairly comprehensive list of basic operational questions to ask when building the infrastructure on your web facing project - from the Microsoft.com operations team . I love the breakdown of availability, this is something...

(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...