New improvements in IIS7 in Windows Server 2008R2

The IIS team has just released a new improvement in IIS7 in Window Server 2008 R2 beta. Windows Server 2008 R2 includes a supplement to IIS7 Web Server, which is already the best IIS platform in history. Make corrections, improvements, and additions.

Content Publishing Extension (FTP, WebDav) Integration into Web Server OS/Integrated Administration Pack Extension to Windows Server OS

New IIS7 PowerShell Provider and Commandlet Support/Rich Server Core Application Hosting

Improved FastCGI Support/IIS Core Change/IIS Best Practice Analyzer

Over the past year and a half, the IIS product team has worked hard on the IIS7 platform to release extensions, beta, TC and RTW. We're adding support for optimizing media hosting, web content publishing, site and server management, deployment and migration, and request processing. Without the architectural changes we introduced in IIS7 on Windows Server 2008, we were unable to innovate in 12 to 18 months and build fully supported Microsoft software for production environments. Now in Windows Server 2008 R2, we have made some improvements, fixes and improvements to this IIS7 platform.

The main highlights of IIS7 improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta today:

Content Publishing Extensions (FTP, WebDav) integrated into Web Server OS

Inheriting Content Publishing Extensions ( FTP, WebDav) into Windows Server OS

Long before Windows Server 2008 was released, we started to develop a completely rewritten FTP server and our WebDav implementation. Earlier in 2008, we released the Windows Server 2008 FTP Publishing Service download, which features FTPS secure content publishing, IPv6 support, IIS Manager integrated management FTP/HTTP site, and more powerful logging and authentication support. Like all of our extensions, the Windows Server 2008 FTP Publishing Service is fully supported by Microsoft product support and supported by forums provided by expert users and product teams. What we have done in Windows Server 2008 R2 is to integrate the FTP publishing service into the server operating system.

When the FTP Publishing Service is installed on Windows Server 2008, you must remove the old version before installing the new FTP service. In R2, you can install a new FTP server as part of the IIS component, and IIS setup will replace the old FTP service.

You can get bug fixes for the FTP Publishing Service since its release in February 2008.

You can use the new authentication, logging, authorization, and home directory extensibility, which will be documented on MSDN.

We will also release an updated Windows Server 2008 FTP Publishing Service download in May 2009, so these customers can also take advantage of these bug fixes and extensibility. Or say:

(Download May 2008 FTP download Windows Server 2008) == (FTP features in Windows Server 2008 R2)

Windows Server 2008 FTP Release The service is always a download and install, and Windows Server 20008 R2 and later will integrate FTP.

The same is true for WebDav, which was released in July 2008. WebDav for Windows Server 2008 provides a completely new implementation of the HTTP protocol WebDAV extension (up to spec). We included WebDav in the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation. A big new feature of WebDav is support for locks. We will also release a WebDav that supports lock for Windows Server 2008, also in May 2009. Similarly:

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