Dave Lawlor {Dot} Com » IIS 7 http://www.davelawlor.com Technical & SEO Consulting Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Win a Free Laptop If Your a US Microsoft MVP! http://www.davelawlor.com/win-a-free-laptop-if-your-a-us-microsoft-mvp http://www.davelawlor.com/win-a-free-laptop-if-your-a-us-microsoft-mvp#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:37:31 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/win-a-free-laptop-if-your-a-us-microsoft-mvp Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Matt Hester announced on his blog a chance to win a free laptop or some other prizes, all you have to do is create a screen cast that shows the use of PHP and IIS 7.  The catch being that you can only enter if you are a Microsoft MVP in the US, which means that those who actually enter should have a great chance at winning.

Doing a screen cast is not that hard to do and actually I do them just for fun.  There are some on this site, and also I have a few at another site, even one that deals with Installing PHP on IIS 7.  The thing I found the most amazing is the comments on the blog that show generally apathy to actually having to learn something outside their comfort zone.  To me a MVP is the best and brightest in his speciality, but not only that but someone who is just technical.  They should have no problem picking up something else that really isn’t that hard. There are a ton of tutorials out there:

Installing WordPress on IIS 7 – Part 1
Installing WordPress on IIS7 – Part 2
Install MySQL on IIS7 Server 2008

Someone who is as technical as an MVP should not have an issue reading up and producing something even basic to enter. I think back to a few days ago when I was hanging out with my wife getting things ready for our Thanksgiving party, and Jeopardy came on the tv.  She watched for awhile and commented on what a lame game show it was compared to Deal or No Deal.  The main reason of course was because the questions were "hard".  DOND was much more popular with her, because you could win just as much or more but your really didn’t have to know much to win. Is it out of style to want someone to really earn a chance to win something?  I hope not, and I hope that the majority of the MVP community didn’t bother to comment and just went about doing it.

I wish Matt the best of luck with his contest and I hope he gets some amazing entries.  I wish I could enter, but I’m no MVP (yet!), but when I do I hope I am one who will just do it!

 

UPDATE:  Well apparently no one is doing it after all, I just saw a second follow-up post from Matt that he has had no entries for this contest from a MVP.  How ridiculous is that?  Maybe they will open it up to non-MVPs, but I think they will just end up canceling it.  Here’s hoping some of the MVPs step up and do it not just for the laptop, but to produce something that could be used to help others work with PHP on IIS 7.

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http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/email-deliverability/2008-08-11/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/e-mail-deliverability/feed 0 IIS 7: Trace Failed Request Logs http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-trace-failed-request-logs http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-trace-failed-request-logs#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:45:06 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=28 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Working on IIS eventually you will have a problem that just makes you wish you could see every call that is going on through the various modules. With Failed Request Logs enabled and configured thats exactly what you get. Read More:

Trace Failed Request Logs

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-trace-failed-request-logs/feed 0 IIS 7: Isolate & Delegate for Remote Administration http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-isolate-delegate-for-remote-administration http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-isolate-delegate-for-remote-administration#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:36:50 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=24 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> IIS 7 gives the ability to delegate out administration of individual sites so that site owners can only administer their own sites. Read More:

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/iis-7-remote-administration-2/2008-06-17/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-isolate-delegate-for-remote-administration/feed 0 IIS 7: Remote Administration http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-remote-administration http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-remote-administration#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:31:58 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=22 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Back to IIS 7 and we discuss how to install, configure, & connect to your IIS 7 servers to manage them remotely from anywhere!

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/iis-7-remote-administration/2008-06-11/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-remote-administration/feed 0 IIS 7: Secure FTP 7 & Isolate Users http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-secure-ftp-7-isolate-users http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-secure-ftp-7-isolate-users#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 19:22:24 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=18 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> In our next journey through IIS, discuss setting up SFTP and isolating users so they are so very lonely….

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/windows-server-2008-securing-ftp/2008-05-07/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-secure-ftp-7-isolate-users/feed 0 IIS 7: FTP 7 User Authentication http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-ftp-7-user-authentication http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-ftp-7-user-authentication#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:20:49 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=15 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> After showing you how to install FTP 7 I wrote more about how to configure it for User Authentication instead of letting all those pesky Hax0r5 get at your files

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/windows-server-2008-ftp-user-authentication/2008-04-30/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-ftp-7-user-authentication/feed 0 IIS 7: FTP 7 Now with SSL! http://www.davelawlor.com/ftp-7-now-with-ssl http://www.davelawlor.com/ftp-7-now-with-ssl#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:14:58 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=11 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Back to writing about IIS 7, my latest article talks about the new FTP add-on that was released for IIS 7 that has a ton of new features including Secure FTP through SSL. Finally Microsoft FTP is a viable product for serious FTP users.

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/windows-server-2008-ftp-iis7/2008-04-25/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/ftp-7-now-with-ssl/feed 0 IIS 7: Setup 301 redirect http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-setup-301-redirect http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-setup-301-redirect#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:02 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=7 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Another in my series of articles on IIS 7, this time I discuss how to setup redirects to pages and other domains. This is a very important concept for webmasters, that I am still amazed is done incorrectly by companies. You can read more at:

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/windows-server-2008-http-redirection/2008-03-27/

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]]> http://www.davelawlor.com/iis-7-setup-301-redirect/feed 0 IIS 7: Install IIS 7 Walkthrough http://www.davelawlor.com/install-iis-7-walkthrough http://www.davelawlor.com/install-iis-7-walkthrough#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:00:58 +0000 Dave http://www.davelawlor.com/?p=3 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Today a walk through I wrote was published on Train Signal Training that shows how to install IIS 7 and setup a static website.

Install IIS 7

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