I am in the process of installing SQL Server 2005 on a new Windows 2008 Server, and ran into the following warning about missing some required components of IIS:

- IIS Feature Requirement (Warning)
Messages
IIS Feature Requirement
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled. IIS is required by some SQL Server features.  Without IIS, some SQL Server features will not be available for installation. To install all SQL Server features, install IIS from Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel or enable the IIS service through the Control Panel if it is already installed, and then run SQL Server Setup again. For a list of features that depend on IIS, see Features Supported by Editions of SQL Server in Books Online.

Fortunately, I was able to find the solution here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920201

The solution is simply to enable the following role services of IIS 7 (right click on Web Server (IIS) in Server Manager, and choose Add Role Services).  Then add the role services from the following table:

Just saw this over on Microsoft Watch, but this is a fascinating interview with Debra Chrapaty, the Corporate VP in charge of Microsoft’s data center and network expansion.  The scale is absolutely mind-boggling.  Seriously… watch the whole interview. It’s worth your time.

Wow... that is a painful post title.  Titles like that that make my wife re-affirm her decision to not read my blog ;)  However, the title will work well in search engines when someone is trying to figure out how to sort their RSS feeds chronologically in Outlook 2007... I guess you win some, you lose some.

In any case, sometimes I realize that something I take for granted is not common knowledge.  I love reading blogs, and currently subscribe to too many feeds (433 to be exact).  When Outlook 2007 added support for RSS feeds, I was glad.  In Outlook, posts are treated similar to mail items.  You can have folder hierarchies, forward items, search them, etc.  All of that works great, but imagine having 433 folders under your inbox, one for each person you corresponded with.  Every time you checked your mail, you had to scroll through each folder to see if a new message had been received.  Very frustrating!

The solution, of course, is to simply view your RSS feeds all in one folder, sorted chronologically. Unfortunately, Outlook does not do this by default.  Fortunately, it is an easy problem to solve using Search Folders.  Let's do it!

Start by clicking on File --> New --> Search Folder... (or hit Ctrl+Shift+P)

Next, scroll down to "Create a custom Search Folder" and click on "Choose..."

Name your search folder (ideally, something more creative than Chronological RSS Feeds), and hit the "Browse..." button to change the scope to your RSS Feeds folder.  I suppose you can leave it on the default of your Mailbox.  Whatever floats your boat.

Next, hit the Criteria... button that I forgot to circle in the picture above.  In the resulting window, click on the Advanced tab

In the "Field" drop down, choose "Message Class", set the condition to contains, and the value to IPM.Post.Rss.

It should look like this:

Hit OK a bunch of times until you get back out to the main Outlook screen, and you should now have a folder with all your posts sorted by date.  You can sort by size, from, "In Folder", whatever.  Good times!

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Priceless ;)  (Make sure you listen with sound)

I love the next-generation TCP/IP Stack and SMB 2.0. It makes for quite zippy transfers :)

More on the new networking features of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726965.aspx