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IIS 7.5 at Windows Server 2008 R2

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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Windows Server 2008 R2 includes many enhancements that make this release the most robust Windows Server Web application platform yet. It offers an updated Web server role, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and greater support for .NET on Server Core. Design goals for IIS 7.5 concentrated on improvements that enable Web administrators to more easily deploy and manage Web applications, and that increase both reliability and scalability. Additionally, IIS 7.5 has streamlined management capabilities and provides more ways than ever to customize your Web serving environment.

The following improvements to IIS and the Windows Web platform are included in Windows Server 2008 R2:

  • Reduced Effort to Administer and Support Web-Based Applications
  • Reduced Support and Troubleshooting Effort
  • Improved File-Transfer Services
  • Ability to Extend Functionality and Features
  • Improved ASP.NET Support
  • Improved Application Pool Security
  • IIS.NET Community Portal

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FTP 7 for window server 2008

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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Microsoft has created a new FTP service that has been completely rewritten for Windows Server 2008. This new FTP service incorporates many new features that enable web authors to publish content better than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options.

  • Integration with IIS 7: IIS 7 has a brand-new administration interface and configuration store, and the new FTP service is tightly integrated with this new design. The old IIS 6.0 metabase is gone, and a new configuration store that is based on the .NET XML-based *.config format has taken its place. In addition, IIS 7 has a new administration tool, and the new FTP server plugs seamlessly into that paradigm.
  • Support for new Internet standards: One of the most significant features in the new FTP server is support for FTP over SSL. The new FTP server also supports other Internet improvements such as UTF8 and IPv6.
  • Shared hosting improvements: By fully integrating into IIS 7, the new FTP server makes it possible to host FTP and Web content from the same site by simply adding an FTP binding to an existing Web site. In addition, the FTP server now has virtual host name support, making it possible to host multiple FTP sites on the same IP address. The new FTP server also has improved user isolation, now making it possible to isolate users through per-user virtual directories.
  • Custom authentication providers: The new FTP server supports authentication using non-Windows accounts for IIS Managers and .NET Membership.
  • Improved logging support: FTP logging has been enhanced to include all FTP-related traffic, unique tracking for FTP sessions, FTP sub-statuses, additional detail fields in FTP logs, and much more.
  • New supportability features: IIS 7 has a new option to display detailed error messages for local users, and the FTP server supports this by providing detailed error responses when logging on locally to an FTP server. The FTP server also logs detailed information using Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), which provides additional detailed information for troubleshooting.
  • Extensible feature set: FTP supports extensibility that allows you to extend the built-in functionality that ships with the FTP service. More specifically, there is support for creating your own authentication and authorization providers. You can also create providers for custom FTP logging and for determining the home directory information for your FTP users.

Seekdotnet have applied FTP 7 in our dotnetpanel with IIS 7 to replace  FTP 6.

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New Silverlight 3

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Posted in .NET Technology, Windows Hosting, Windows Technology | 761 Comments »

Silverlight 3 hosting Full supported by Visual Studio Hosting , highlights of new features and functionality of Silver light 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity. Also, in order to fully integrate all the .NET developer tools, Visual Studio 2010 will support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silver light. New features in Silver light 3 include:

Support for Higher Quality Video & Audio

With support for native H.264/Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) Audio, live and on-demand IIS7 Smooth Streaming, full HD (720p+) playback, and an extensible decoder pipeline, Silverlight 3 brings rich, full-screen, stutter-free media experiences to the desktop.

Empowering Richer Experiences

Silverlight 3 contains new 3D graphics, animation features, hardware accelerated effects and text improvements that enable designers and developers to create next generation Web visuals.

Improving Rich Internet Application Productivity

New features include:

  • 60+ controls with source code : Silverlight 3 is packed with over 60 high-quality, fully skin able and customizable out-of-the-box controls such as charting and media, new layout containers such as dock and view box, and controls such as auto complete, tree view and data grid.
  • Managed Resources – Resource Libraries Support for merging libraries across files enhances the ability to create reusable resources and maintain large applications
  • Deep Linking. Silverlight 3 includes support for deep linking, which enables bookmarking a page within a RIA.
  • Multi-page Application Visual Studio provides a framework for multi-page Silverlight Applications greatly simplifying inter-page communication and the creation of a uniform User Experience across pages
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Silverlight 3 enables users to solve the SEO-related challenges posed by RIAs. By utilizing business objects on the server, together with ASP.NET controls and site maps, users can automatically mirror database-driven RIA content into HTML that is easily indexed by the leading search engines. Seekdotnet also support SEO services for this Silverlight 3.

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