IIS 8 on Windows 8 Developer Preview

Today Microsoft released the technical Developer Preview bits of its latest operating system "Windows 8" ... Though windows 8 is being show cased as the next generation tablet OS ... I had to install IIS as the 1st thing I did after "windows 8" install.

Short Story: There is no real difference in the install experience from that of IIS 7...

Long Story: You will still need to install IIS 8 from "Turn Windows Features on\off", however the way you reach there is slightly different now...

• Once you are on the Home Screen (The new Metro UI coolness that you see everywhere) click on Control Panel
• This will take you to a new control panel page (which looks simple and cool by the way) ... Once at this page go to the last option that says "More Settings"
• This will get you to the familiar Windows 7 control panel settings page from wherein you will go to Programs --> Turn windows features on\off --> Internet Information Services --> Select --> leave Default and say ok
• That's it... once the result displayed is success ... go to IE and browse localhost ... 

The first noticeable difference you will find after you install IIS on Windows 8 TP is the localhost start page ... For all of you who haven't check it out yet ... here it is ...

Will be posting a lot more once I am through configuring "IIS 8" ...

Note: Check out how HTML 5, PHP and ASP.Net are included in number "8" ... Need I say more about Microsoft's commitment towards PHP and HTML 5 ??

Next Steps ... Going to Run PHP :-) 

How do I listen to songs from my laptop on my Windows Phone 7?

I have about 6 GB of audio collection saved under folder ("Songs") on my machine. I never felt it practical to sync my entire collection, however, every now and then I would miss listening to a song I hadn't synced yet ... so I had to find a solution to this problem... The answer to the above question is fairly simple - I used IIS

Google Adsense Domain Ownership Verification

Hey All... I had applied for Google Adsense program and they couldn't admit me into their program as they were not sure about the Domain Ownership ... :-) They have asked me to create this page... so here it goes ...

"This post confirms my ownership of the site and that this site adheres to Google AdSense
program policies and Terms and Conditions: ca-pub-8263985038259751"

No IIS stuff in this one ... :D

Presenting at Microsoft Tech-ED India

Pretty heavy load of presentaions on my way for the next 3 weeks and yet I feel so excited.

I will be speaking on IIS and the Widows Web Platform in general for engineering students here in Hyderabad on the 16th. I am so looking forward to this. My previous expiriences with students were real engaging; their enthusiasm, the eagerness to learn and adopt the technology is ashtonishing.

Next, I will be kicking off my workshops on IIS 7 for freshers at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune in India. You can get more information on the training from here.

From there I will shift to  LaLiT Ashok in Bangalore for the big show - Tech-Ed India. For those who are not aware, Tech-Ed India is the largest technical event in India by Microsoft. This time around Microsoft has arranged for Keynotes by Senior Microsoft Executives , Breakout Sessions, Hands-on-Labs, Instructor-led Labs, Product Team Tents, Free Microsoft Certification, Community Programs, Solution Expo, and many more. Apart from that I will also be speaking on "IIS - Deploy and manage Web applications, built using your choice of runtimes" from 4:15pm-5:15pm on the 25th this month. :-)

You can register for the sessions and the event at the Tech-Ed India Website.

Update: Final list of sessions on IIS.

Web Deployment – super simplified using IIS 7 and Visual Studio 2010 - Speaker: Madhur Joshi
Leveraging the power of your IIS – tools, extensibility - Speaker: Madhur Joshi
Building & Managing a Web Farm - Speaker: Tulika Chaudharie
Deploy and manage Web applications, built using your choice of runtimes - Speaker: Muqeet Khan


Last 3 days of the month and I am conducting a real cool training on IIS 7 for a firm in Hyderabad. Love the travel, Love the technology ... Stayed tuned... Lots to update soon...

Do check out the Tech-Ed India agenda ... Lots of sessions on IIS and surrounding technologies. See you there!

IIS Workstation now on Facebook

Hey Everyone,
  Wanted to take this opportunity to let you all know that I have started a page for IIS Workstation on Facebook. You can check it out at http://www.facebook.com/iisworkstation. The idea behind this is to give short tips, tricks and solutions that really dont fit in a category for a blog. When it comes to IIS there are many such things which I plan to use this Facebook page for.

See you on Facebook! Happy Posting!
Regards,
Muqeet Khan
(ma_khan)