October 2006 - Posts
Starting Windows 2003 SP1, you will be able to configure
SSL with your host header websites. I'm sure IIS 7.0 will support this as well, and Thomas Deml shows how to enable
SSL with host headers in IIS 7.0. The catch here is the same with IIS 6.0, you need to have the same top level domain. E.g. *.yourdomain.com for all the host header websites.
Latest Port80 Software
survey result shows increase usage of IIS6 web servers in Fortune 1000 websites, while latest
Netcraft survey also showing overall growing trend of IIS deployment :) I can't wait to see the usage of IIS 7.0 when it release!
Ha! If you are really into IIS community, I'm sure you have heard of the name - David Wang. He is so far the best IIS blogger I know, apparently after a long silence - nothing has been updated in his
old blog since August, I came across his
new blog while catching up with newsgroups posting :) I don't have the detail of what's going on internally, but I wish David all the best in whatever he is working on now! and keep blogging more good stuff of IIS.
922729 IIS 5.0 does not start automatically after the server is restarted
922423 FIX: Error message when you try to directly send a new SSL server certificate request to a CA service after you upgrade from Exchange 2000 Server to Exchange Server 2003: "Access is denied"
922422 BUG: When you submit a request to an ASP page that calls a COM component in Internet IIS 6.0, you may receive an error message
922733 The performance of a Web application may decrease, and the network bandwidth may increase after you add a Web server that is running IIS 5.0 to a Web farm that uses network load balancing
The IIS team just published the Powered by IIS Logo..... It comes in 2 flavors for IIS 6 and 7. Get it
here!
Blue - IIS 6

White - IIS 6

Blue - IIS 7

White - IIS 7
I got the opportunity to write the last
IIS Insider on TechNet :) In this issue, I talked about:
Next, according to my info - next issue of IIS Insider will be hosted at
IIS.Net