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Installing FTP with IIS7 on 2008 Server Core
05 June 08 06:36 PM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Hosting Days Australia - Coming to a City Near you!
30 April 08 10:36 AM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Hacked Web Applications causing storm - rattling Windows...
29 April 08 12:01 AM | jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
Potential Security Vulnerability for NetworkService / potential new IIS exploit
18 April 08 07:25 PM | jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
HUGE performance increases with PHP on Windows 2008
14 April 08 01:54 PM | jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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. Read More...
MIX: IIS7 bring hosters and developers together
08 March 08 05:19 AM | jorkeo | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
Rich Media @ MIX
08 March 08 04:57 AM | jorkeo | 2 Comments   
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! - Read More...
TechReady halfway.. and shattered
15 February 08 05:06 AM | jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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' Read More...
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@ TechReady6 in Seattle
10 February 08 11:17 AM | jorkeo | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
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Microsoft Web Deployment Tool
24 January 08 10:54 AM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
iis7forheroes.com - from Emantra
23 January 08 05:07 PM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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! Read More...
Infrastructure Architecture Design Questions
14 January 08 11:44 AM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
MIX on campus - a lot of dodgy mo's around
20 November 07 01:23 PM | jorkeo | 3 Comments   
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 Read More...
What size footprint does your worker process leave?
05 November 07 10:43 PM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
MICROSOFT.COM running on Windows 2008 RC0
01 November 07 10:46 PM | jorkeo | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
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