David has posted two articles about his thoughts on IIS Security vs. Apache which I would like to recommend to you: Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache, Part 2
[Via Andrew Connell] At the MVP Global Summit, Microsoft disclosed that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, InfoPath, Publisher, Visio, and OneNote in Office 12 will support saving documents to PDF natively… no need for PDF printer drivers any more!!! The saved documents will be based on Adobe’s Open Specification and can be read using any tool […]
The latest version includes full multi-lingual support, twice as many forms, and a full SharePoint integration. [Via BusinessWebSoftware] AFLite now offers integration with both SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services. Other major improvements include that we’ve added mutli-lingual support and increased the number of forms allowed, so you can now publish 10 forms. AFLite […]
Great news for Microsoft Partners – Three courses that will enable you to be able to gain the certification requirements for the Portals and Content Management Specialisation have been anounced: Accelerated Customising Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 [Customised] Designing IT Platform Collaborative Applications with Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Workshop Building Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Solutions (read […]
ASP.NET 2.0 makes it very easy to consume and display an RSS feed on an ASP.NET web site. Andrew Duthie demonstrates how to do this using a XmlDataSource control and a DataList bound control with a little XPath on Channel 9:http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=120524
[Via Andrew Connell] WSS SP2 is now available: MSFT WSS SP2 Aside from a hotfix rollup, the following features/capabilities that are provided by WSS SP2: Reverse Proxy and Alternate URL support IP Bound virtual servers SQL Server 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 Some additional links: MSFT WSS v2 SP2 Download MSFT KB Q894903: updating a WSS ASP.NET […]
MCMS ships with a nice comparison feature for revisions. But there is nothing available to compare to different postings! Chester has spent some time to analyze how MCMS does the revision history comparison and managed to get the CompareHTML.dll shipped with MCMS and used for revision history comparision working in his implementation to compare different […]
Mike Rousos has put together a great article series for the ASP.NET 2.0 tracing system. A must read for all ASP.NET 2.0 developers! A Tracing Primer – Part I Introduction Instantiating a TraceSource Adding Tracing Events Configuring source using config file and programmatically Trace Listeners A Tracing Primer – Part II (A) Trace Filters (Event […]
ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidance Indexhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/ASPNET2SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidelineshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGGuidelines0001.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security Checklisthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGCK0001.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practiceshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGPractices0001.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security How Toshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/SecurityHowTosIndex.asp?frame=true
Now after Arpan posted his Top 10 favorite features for next version of SharePoint and MCMS Lawrence Liu has posted his favorite list: A “Global” Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides modularity for “additive” templates OOB document review/approval workflow with support for digital signatures Integration with Outlook […]
IIS 7.0 Operations Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/iis7/Ops/9a90c800-3f09-4a3f-87b0-caae34076aca.mspx Procedures for how to do tasks in IIS 7.0 IIS 7.0 Technical Reference http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/iis7/TechRef/cb9206df-accd-4513-9150-8deb9091c5a9.mspx In depth information about IIS 7.0 features (not so in depth at the moment, as we focus on this content later in the cycle) IIS 7.0 Administration Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/IIS_70_AdminSDK/html/e9ef2244-fd23-4d3c-ace3-5bb48696f69c.asp References for the configuration store […]
Just found the following great article on this topic: HOWTO: Diagnose IIS6 failing to accept connections due to Connections_Refused
