In my previous post, I explained how the Microsoft.Web.Administration API of IIS7 helped us to manage the Live Smooth Streaming Publishing Points programmatically. In this post I’m going to show you how, using the same API, you can retrieve the Live Smooth Streaming configuration settings.

Live Smooth Streaming: How-to: Start, Stop & Shutdown a Publishing Point Programmatically. Describes how to use the Microsoft.Web.Administration API to perform different operations over a live smooth streaming publishing point.

"Today we are shipping the first beta of a new free tool - the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit - that makes it easy to perform SEO analysis on your site and identify and fix issues within it."

How to setup GZip compression for javascript files and dynamic content.

"With IIS 7 it is now easier than ever to customize the inner workings of ASP.NET applications using only the web.config. It is possible to remove all the features but the ones the specific application uses. In other words, we are able to lock down our applications and only turn on the features...

This video demonstrates how Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 can be used to accomplish common URL manipulation tasks: •Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URLs for dynamic web pages •Enforcing canonical host names for web sites •Using rewrite maps •Blocking unwanted re...

"Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up. Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage...

FYI: BlogEngine source download is a solution with a core Web Application project and a Web Site project consisting of the main deployable part. I hate Web Site projects; they should be stamped out!!

"For the last couple of days I've noticed that my server's been inundated with a huge number of unwanted requests." -Article shows how Rick Strahl solved the problem with IIS7.

"I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I’ll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I’ll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible thing, and why I think the way that turned ...

omg! This is the whip!

If you want to run your existing ASP.NET 1.1 websites under .NET Framework v1.1 please read this post Configuring .NET Framework 1.1 on windows vista and follow the below steps. 1. Open IIS 7 by going through Control Panel/Administrative Tools and please select the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions opt...

New releases for IIS 7 from Microsoft, CTP1 release.

Redirecting an HTTP connection to HTTPS is a very common requirement for applications that use SSL channel. A common example is Outlook Web Access (OWA). With Internet Information Services 7.0, we have a new configuration system and a new user interface. Here are the steps that you will need to auto...