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IIS 7.0 Learns a Few Tricks from Apache

Posted by Zonk on from the old-dog-new-tricks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to BetaNews, Microsoft is learning a few tricks from Apache for the next release of IIS, version 7.0. Specifically, the IIS feature set has been broken down into modules to reduce overhead. Modules can be changed on the fly, without restarting the Web server. Also, the IIS metabase has been completely dropped in favor of easily editable XML configuration files. Each Web application can have its own config file that overrides the system-wide configuration."

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  1. My two cents... by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Microsoft wants me to switch, they had better come out with something truly special rather than simply aping the rest of the industry.

    I'd settle for a better IIS-FTP component, the one in IIS 6 is a bit of a joke. As for the Metabase , yes it could be more transparent but it isn't that complicated and there is an excellent programming interface for it. Most of all I'd really like to see Microsoft cough up the ability to configure absolutely every aspect of IIS (and Windows it self for that matter) from the commandline. Basically I want the option of being able to do absoloutely everything I can do with the Windows GUI admin tools but over a lousy GPRS connection via a remote text based shell. And this to the point where I don't have to see a Windows desktop for months should the need arise. Even in Windows 2003 the commandline toolkit that comes with Windows is incomplete although Microsoft does offer a bunch of administrator toolkits that help alot but I still fail to see why these have to be tracked down and downloaded seperately rather than being supplied with the OS.

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    1. Re:My two cents... by secolactico · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'd settle for a better IIS-FTP component, the one in IIS 6 is a bit of a joke.

      Heck, yeah. I don't even bother with it anymore and I usually go with a third party program for my ftp needs.

      But I wish IIS would allow me to authenticate against an external user database instead of the system's or AD.

      Other than that, I have no complains about Windows 2003/IIS 6. I also run Apache 2 on Linux and Apache 1.3 on Solaris. I don't see much of a difference in stability. Apache1.3/Solaris are a bit behind in performance but that's because they are running on a *really* old Sun machine.

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  2. Re:About time by aktzin · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I was really surprised when this came out in 2001:

    "Research group Gartner is advising businesses to "immediately" replace their Microsoft Internet Information Server software with a more secure server application, following attacks on IIS by the worms Code Red and Nimda."

    http://news.com.com/2102-1001_3-273461.html?tag=st .util.print

    Gartner approves of Microsoft more often than not, and this was by far the most negative opinion I've ever seen them express about MS. Too bad hardly anyone took their advice.

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  3. Re:About time by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Simply aping the rest of the industry has always worked for them before. Why change now? Because the other option is:

    a) Free
    b) Easily modifiable if you figure out something else you want it to do
    c) More Stable
    d) Running on an OS that's Free'er than yours
    e) Kicking your tail
    f) Preferred by Developers
    g) All of the above

    It might be mildly intelligent to actually add features that people really want badly to overcome the rest of the problems there....

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