This afternoon I received an email from Microsoft to tell me that I’d been awarded the 2013 Microsoft MVP Award for ASP.Net/IIS! This is my sixth MVP Award and I’ve mentioned before I am extremely humble to be associated with a great group of less than 5000 technical people around the globe. I’ll be aiming to continue my efforts to help the community and deliver as much content as I can to aid and spread knowledge.
On Thursday night I was having an email conversation with Takeshi Eto from DiscountASP.Net about the hosting of my blog. I’ve been hosting my blog with DiscountASP.Net for nearly five years and have been very, very happy with their service – always up to date often offering services faster than other hosters and very quick turn around of support tickets if ever I’ve had any issues – they also host the NEBytes site. Well on Thursday I was asking about migrating my site onto IIS 8.0 hosting and enquiring when it would be available. Well during the same conversation Takeshi … Continue reading Blog Now Hosted on IIS 8.0–DiscountASP.Net
Thanks to all the attendees who came to my talk on IIS8 last week at NxtGenUG Manchester Daresbury. Apologies for the delay in posting the slides, you can now get them on my Slides & Resources page and the direct link for the IIS 8 Presentation slides is – http://www.andrewwestgarth.co.uk/Presentations/IIS%208%20–%20Platform%20for%20the%20Future.pdf
Two new Release Candidates for the following IIS Extensions have been released today: Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 (the replacement for the previously released Application Warmup beta extension) Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS7/7.5 Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 Application Initialization is a feature which is coming in IIS 8.0 and is now also available for IIS 7.5 (please note this feature is not available for IIS 7.0). This module helps to eliminate the lack of feedback experienced by users when an application is first accessed and is not “warmed up”. Through the use of this module Administrators can enable a … Continue reading Release Candidates of Application Initialization and Dynamic IP Restrictions Released
With the recent release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and the Windows Server 8 Beta I’ve been looking at the new features in IIS8 such as: Web Socket Support Application Initialization Configuration Optimization SNI Support and many more… If you would like to know more and are in the Manchester area why not come along to NxtGenUG Manchester on Wednesday 18th April 2012 where I’ll be giving my first in a number of sessions on IIS8. For more information or to signup please visit the NxtGenUG Website
This week’s RunAs Radio has Clint Huffman, a Microsoft Premier Field Engieer talking to Richard Campbell about understanding the health state of IIS7/7.5. There is some excellent content in this episode and I’d strongly recommend listning to it. Clint covers aspects such as mappings, caching, failed request tracing and the IIS Log Analyzer. Rather than tell you everything that is in the podcast, listen now! – http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=248 RunAs Radio is an excellent weekly podcast with Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes for IT Professionals/Developers making use of Microsoft products. In my honest opinion I think developers need to also have an … Continue reading Recommended Listening–Clint Huffman on RunAs Radio
I don’t often post links to posts from others, however I really wanted to highlight two great resources which two other IIS MVPs have started recently. IIS Community Newsletter Steve Schofield has recently published the first IIS Community Newsletter. The newsletter comprises all of the latest information and happenings in the IIS Community. If you would like to find out more or register to receive the newsletter go to http://www.iisnewsletter.com and if you have anything you’d like to contribute you can also contribute to the Wiki. Big thanks to Steve for the mention is the inaugural newsletter for both my … Continue reading Two Great Resources from Other IIS MVPs
As is the case with most of my blog posting of late, it’s well.. late and in a big queue, but seeing this is relatively time sensitive and the fact that I’m over the moon again. I thought I’d jot a quick post. Last Thursday (1st July 2010), I was very pleased to receive an email from Microsoft to inform me that I had been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for 2010 – Internet Information Services (IIS). This is the third consecutive year I have received this and as I’ve mentioned before I am extremely humble to be … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for 2010
Finally I am uploading my slides and links to demos from the session I delivered at NxtGenUG Manchester on the 21st April, for those who attended thanks for coming along I hope you enjoyed the session, and I’d like to offer a massive apology for taking so long to post the slides and links to the demos. My session covered the Web Deployment Tool including the integration in VS2010 and I also covered the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit. Download the slides from my Slides & Resources page. MS Deploy Resources Web Deployment Team Blog – http://blogs.iis.net/msdeploy/ Vishal R Joshi … Continue reading Search and Deploy – Slides from NxtGen Manchester April Event
