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    VARs Scramble for OCS Training  Dec 29, 2007
    Students can choose training on all aspects of the technology including OCS, Exchange Server 2007, Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server and more or can choose only those subjects they feel they need to cover. Cross said for now, since OCS is so new, most of the inquiries his company has received are from potential students who need comprehensive training. (eWeek)

    How To Make an Un-Level Playing Field More Un-Level  Dec 20, 2007
    Answer: The SAT. As for the SAT Subject Tests (called Achievement Tests until 1994, and SAT IIs until 2005), each subject has a one-hour test, and a student can take up to three Subject Tests in one day ... Answer: The SAT. As for the SAT Subject Tests (called Achievement Tests until 1994, and SAT IIs until 2005), each subject has a one-hour test, and a student can take up to three Subject Tests in one day. (Townhall.com)

    10 Coolest Features in Windows Server 2008  Dec 18, 2007
    By Eric Spiegel - Published January 4, 2007 Using teamwork and incentives, the financial services firm averted serious problems within its support environment. By Mike Elgan - Published May 30, 2007 Want your own personal computing Renaissance. (Datamation)

    One MVP discusses the ins and outs of SQL Server 2008  Nov 27, 2007
    With Reporting Services, for example, now you don't need IIS. That's a big thing because IIS is kind of a pain in the neck to deal with and it's a security risk ... By getting rid of IIS and having everything done natively, things can be a lot easier to manage, are more efficient and more secure ... With Reporting Services, for example, now you don't need IIS. That's a big thing because IIS is kind of a pain in the neck to deal with and it's a security risk. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Microsoft's Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy  Nov 19, 2007
    That's what we built Windows Server 2008 with Server Core and PowerShell and new technologies that support PHP better in IIS 7 Internet Information Services. For us, it's not a religion, there's literally feature requests from customers showing up in some of our competitive products, we said great, people want this stuff. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    austriamicrosystems expands CMOS, High-Voltage, High-Voltage Flash and RF Multi Project Wafer Service for Foundry Customers  Nov 15, 2007
    In 2008, austriamicrosystems will offer more than 150 MPW start dates, made possible through long lasting co-operations with organizations like CMP-TIMA, Europractice, Fraunhofer IIS and MOSIS. The full schedule for 2008 has now been released and detailed start dates per process are available on the web at. To take advantage of the MPW service, austriamicrosystems foundry customers deliver their completed GDSII-data at specific dates and receive untested packaged samples or dies within a short... (BusinessWire)

    Security Pro Admits to Hijacking pcs for Profit  Nov 11, 2007
    Facts like: IIS is the single most hacked web server in the world; even though there are hundreds of thousands more Apache servers available on the internet. Even though the bad guys have the source code to Apache and can read it all day long, they still find IIS an easier target. (Washington Post)

    Applied Innovations Introduces Windows 2008 Hosting for Dedicated Servers  Nov 8, 2007
    The operating system, which is scheduled to be released next February, represents the next generation of Microsoft-powered hosting technology and includes the latest version Internet Information Services (IIS7) ... The operating system, which is scheduled to be released next February, represents the next generation of Microsoft-powered hosting technology and includes the latest version Internet Information Services (IIS7) ... Through a partnership with Microsoft, Applied Innovations will allow... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Gphone no challenge to iPhone?  Nov 8, 2007
    "I think it's inevitable if the iPhone continues to be as successful as it appears on launch that there will be iPhone IIs, iPhone IIIs, whatever. And if we do our job right then they will be based on future ARM processors," East said. Apple shipped 1. (InfoWorld)

    New Windows Server, IIS Takes A Modular Approach  Nov 7, 2007
    Microsoft placed emphasis on Web serving and hosting with Server 2008 and IIS 7, soliciting feedback from customers on their "pain points," as Michael van Dijken, lead marketing manager for Microsoft's hosting business put it ... More important was making IIS modular, so only the needed parts were installed ... With IIS 6, you installed the whole server, even if you didn't need portions of its functionality. (Datamation)

    When bad news is nothing but good  Oct 28, 2007
    This year was no exception as two Hollywood stars blossomed into award contenders - Halle Berry, back to her best in Things We Lost in the Fire, and John Cusack in Grace Iis Gone. Both actors are now 41 and have been popular for nearly two decades. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)

    LETTER:History will speak well of President Bush  Oct 26, 2007
    From The Duelfer Report: "ISG uncovered information that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) maintained throughout 1991 to 2003 a set of undeclared covert laboratories to research and test various chemicals and poisons, primarily for intelligence operations. The network of laboratories could have provided an ideal, compartmented platform from which to continue CW agent Rmall-scale production efforts... ====== Exploitations of IIS laboratories, safe houses, and disposal sites revealed no... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)

    Introduction to Web Servers  Oct 23, 2007
    Some of the more common names heard today include Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache, WebLogic, WebSphere, Sun, and Lighttpd. Prices for web servers range from free (Apache) to sort of free (you get IIS automatically when you have a Windows 200x server) to expensive (WebSphere) ... If you have Microsoft windows servers in house, it s likely you will go with IIS. It s part of the server that you just have to turn on. (Suite101.com)

    Firm picks Oracle 11g on RHEL for the long haul  Oct 20, 2007
    "Single sign-on is carried across the middle tier onto the database. We could have a single sign-on proxy box with Apache running on Linux, and that can cross over to a Microsoft IIS running .NET that eventually comes back to Oracle on a Linux box," Sverrisson said ... "Single sign-on is carried across the middle tier onto the database. We could have a single sign-on proxy box with Apache running on Linux, and that can cross over to a Microsoft IIS running .NET that eventually comes back to... (Search Enterprise Linux)

    Recent Server Stats: Apache Declines  Oct 17, 2007
    The top players changed little from July through September, Google Front End (GFE) joined lighttpd, Apache, Microsoft IIS and Sun-ONE-Web-Server again took top honors. Apache's market share continued its long decline, coming yet closer to losing its single-handed majority -- coming in at 50. (Datamation)

    Zend Advances PHP  Oct 11, 2007
    This year, Microsoft announced the release of the GoLive beta of an Internet Information Services add-on component, FastCGI. FastCGI serves as an interface between PHP and an IIS Web server delivering substantial reliability and performance benefits for PHP applications running on Windows. It is now available for free from Microsoft at. (eWeek)

    Zend sets stage for PHP  Oct 10, 2007
    Microsoft at the event will announce delivery of a "GoLive" beta release of an add-on to its IIS (Internet Information Server) Web server for FastCGI, Zend said. This will serve as an interface between PHP and IIS to boost reliability of PHP applications on Windows. (InfoWorld)

    Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS Under Go Live License  Oct 10, 2007
    FastCGI will ship in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 as a built-in IIS component for the first time ... FastCGI essentially allows IIS to reuse CGI (Common Gateway Interface) processes for multiple requests to PHP applications, helping improve the performance of PHP on Windows while maintaining reliability ... FastCGI, available as a free download from the will allow IT professionals to host PHP applications on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 with increased scalability and security, said a... (eWeek)

    Major Day of Windows Releases From Microsoft  Sep 25, 2007
    Server roles are reduced functionality versions of the full server, dedicated to specific tasks like DNS management; Web serving through Internet Information Services (IIS); print services and so on. The smaller footprint means server core servers should be faster, lighter and less susceptible to security issues, given the reduced attack surface. (ENT News)

    Experts Astonished to Learn Windows Update Updates Itself  Sep 16, 2007
    A brief check of the table of contents on Microsoft's TechNet reveals a page entitled, "." Though there is no explicit sentence here that says, "By the way, the IIS-marshaled update channel still functions even when the option in this dialog box is set to 'Turn off Automatic Updates,"' a fairly knowledgeable person reading this page should be able to deduce that this self-update channel is separate and operative ... Try updating Windows XP with SP1a today while the IIS service is disabled--not... (BetaNews)

    The benefits of detective controls in change management  Sep 16, 2007
    Imagine a critical IIS service that enables supply chain management and ties in to Microsoft SQL Server. If a change, such as a Windows operating system patch, introduces errors to that system -- perhaps causing it to crash -- what will the impacts to the business be. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Microsoft Downplays Stealth Update Concerns  Sep 15, 2007
    This means that most versions of Automatic Updates can be pointed to the public Windows Update site, and they will automatically self-update," the document reads.That's exactly how the process works for users not connecting to a WSUS-equipped server.Even the alternative -- "You can also use the WSUS server to self-update the client software," the document said -- doesn't spell out what oversight administrators have over the modifications. In fact, this approach relies on the (IIS) component of... (PC World)

    How to avoid dangling pointers: Tiny programming errors leave serious security vulnerabilities  Sep 14, 2007
    He co-authored the book IIS Security and has written numerous technical articles for leading IT publications. Mike is the guest instructor for several SearchSecurity. (Search Security, MA)

    The infrastructures virtual  Sep 14, 2007
    Anil Kumar Kaushik, Deputy General Manager, IIS Infrastructure, BPCL says, Each of our applications was residing on its own dedicated server. There were 17 servers running 17 different applications. (Express Computers)

    Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems  Sep 11, 2007
    MediaWiki is written in and requires PHP and a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, and is generally served via an Apache or IIS web server. This means that setting it up can be a bit of an undertaking, but for launching an enterprise-class wiki, it's probably the best option available. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Web server security wars: Is IIS or Apache more secure  Sep 8, 2007
    Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I've come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. On this topic. (ITworld -- News)

    Which is safer: IIS or Apache?  Sep 8, 2007
    Continuing the Web Server Security Wars: Is IIS or Apache More Secure ... Continuing the Web Server Security Wars: Is IIS or Apache More Secure ... Continuing the theme from my on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I've come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. (InfoWorld)

    Most Malware Made in China  Sep 6, 2007
    Google also suggested that security patches aren't available for such pirated copies of Microsoft IIS, meaning that a larger percentage of Chinese IIS servers are potentially compromised. Check out eWEEK.com's for the latest security news, reviews and analysis. (eWeek)

    Lawmakers push armor  Sep 4, 2007
    This summer, it launched a competition to build MRAP IIs, a new class of vehicles that it hopes will withstand the blasts of explosively formed penetrators. More than a dozen companies have been invited to make proposals. (USA Today -- News)

    MetaPower International, Inc. Receives Patent Number for UCoDA's Remaining Claims  Sep 4, 2007
    The Web technology is designed for the Microsoft IIS Web Server. The UCoDA is currently programmed in Microsoft's Visual Studio with a COM messaging architecture. (Primezone Releases)

    Windows Server 2008, real release slides into next year  Aug 30, 2007
    For one, it added more roles such as virtualization and IIS 7 ... For one, it added more roles such as virtualization and IIS 7. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Understanding the SharePoint, ASP.NET Relationship  Aug 30, 2007
    Most ASP.NET developers run Windows XP and use the built in IIS to develop their applications ... Your operating system already has IIS and even if it doesn't you can use the built in CASINI. Unfortunately, nothing comes out of the box with SharePoint -- not even SharePoint itself ... Then you copy files, open a command prompt, GAC and un-GAC, do a voodoo dance, and then reset IIS -- at least that's what it's going to feel like. (IntranetJournal)

    iWork '08: The Next Step in Apple's SMB Push?  Aug 22, 2007
    Same thing with Outlook, which really only shines with Exchange, which requires Active Directory, and then you need IIS for webmail. Go to page: 1. (Datamation)

    Apache losing ground says another survey  Aug 18, 2007
    0 web server (IIS 6) gained 9. 5 percent since August 2006, and passed IIS 5 to lead the survey for the first time, outserving the open source Apache server and all other Web servers among Fortune 1000 sites ... Overall, IIS 4, 5, 6, and 7 deployments continue a four year lead in the survey with a combined 55 percent share of all Fortune 1000 corporate sites, versus Apache s 24. (MacCentral)

    Noble Financial TWO DOUBLE-O-SEVEN Equity Conference Presenter Profiles  Aug 18, 2007
    As of March 31, 2007, the company managed a fleet of 37 planes with another 48 Piaggio Avanti IIs on order. It also recently announced an order of 20 Embraer Phenom 100s. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Vick's fall diminishes many  Aug 17, 2007
    I had 2 Vick jerseys and a pair of Zoom Vick IIs. When everyone talked trash about him, I stood behind him, telling people why he was a good quarterback and how all the other mistakes he had made were just bad judgment. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Apache Today  Aug 16, 2007
    June 8, 2007] Apache's installed base is three times that of IIS, but the percentage of servers with malware is evenly split between them. May 21, 2007] How does this rising star in the Web server space compare to the long-time market leader. (IntranetJournal)

    XMLfiles.com  Aug 16, 2007
    Using built-in features of IIS 5. 0 and IE 5. (IntranetJournal)

    Letters: Measure 49 would save farms, forests  Aug 14, 2007
    As of October 2002, al-Zarqawi maintained contacts with the IIS (Iraqi Intelligence Service) to procure weapons and explosives, including surface-to-air missiles from an IIS officer in Baghdad. The CIA has documented contacts between IIS and al-Qaida operatives since 1992. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    WORLDSPACE(R) Satellite Radio Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results  Aug 10, 2007
    -- Signed an agreement with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, a division of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, to develop a receiver reference design for the European market, which is already in development and undergoing testing ... WorldSpace Chairman and CEO Noah A. Samara stated, "We worked diligently to reach an agreement with Fiat Group Automobiles which now provides us with the means to reach Italian consumers in their automobiles. With this achievement, we have most of the... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Open source friendly IIS 7.0 sets sights on Apache  Aug 9, 2007
    Computerworld - Open source friendly IIS 7 ... Open source friendly IIS 7 ... Web server survey site Netcraft's recent report may have indicated Microsoft's IIS is gaining ground over the venerable open source Apache HTTP server, but version 7. (Computerworld Australia)

    Survey: MS IIS gaining on Apache  Aug 9, 2007
    Survey: Microsoft's IIS may catch Apache in Web server market. IIS continues to narrow the gap with the open-source Apache Web server, adding 2 ... Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) continues to narrow the gap with the open source Apache Web server, with a survey firm suggesting that the longtime second banana could surpass as early as next year. (InfoWorld)

    Enterprise Networking Planet  Aug 9, 2007
    By Aaron Weiss - Published July 13, 2007 If you're concerned about the impact of Web services on system resources, lighthttpd is establishing itself as a standout alternative to lumbering Apache or IIS.. By Paul Rubens - Published July 12, 2007 You want to restrict some traffic from your network, your users want to get at that traffic. (LinuxPlanet)

    Poisoned Web Sites Soar Six-Fold, Sophos Says  Jul 28, 2007
    "Just over half -- 51 percent -- of the infected sites are on servers powered by Apache, the open-source Web server software, Sophos reported. Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server, meanwhile, accounted for 34 percent of compromised or malicious systems. Both numbers are in line with , according to the U.K.-based Internet measuring company Netcraft Ltd. Its figures put Apache at 50 percent of all servers, IIS at 35.5 percent."Malware is not just a Microsoft problem," Cluley... (PC World)

    Microsoft desktop manager RC1 ready for download  Jul 27, 2007
    A console similar the ones found in IIS and WSUS will let IT administrators send patches over the Internet ... A console similar the ones found in IIS and WSUS will let IT administrators send patches over the Internet. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    29% of web pages host malware, says Sophos  Jul 26, 2007
    While there was a major malware outbreak in June that almost excusively hit Apache servers, the company estimates that half of the attacks hit Apache and the other half Microsoft IIS.. For users, these findings obviously suggest that anti-malware software is becoming more important. (TG Daily)

    New hacking technique exploits common programming error  Jul 23, 2007
    The researchers initially were able to exploit the problem on Microsoft Corp.'s IIS 5 ... addressed the problem in IIS with one of the ... The company had known since 2005 about the IIS bug that caused the crash, but it was considered a simple denial-of-service problem and not remotely exploitable. (Search Security, MA)

    FIAT and WORLDSPACE(R) Sign First Ever Distribution Agreement For Satellite Radio In Europe  Jul 19, 2007
    This past Spring, WORLDSPACE signed a contract with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), part of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, to develop a receiver reference design (or engineering blueprint) for the European market which is already in development and undergoing testing. WORLDSPACE's European strategy is to roll out its service on a sequential, country-by-country basis. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Apache loses more ground in latest Netcraft report  Jul 18, 2007
    More on Apache and IIS ... In this light, Brewer said the gradual decline is not attributable to competition from commercial proprietary alternatives like IIS, but rather to the rising number of Tomcat production-level deployments ... "Add to that the fact," he said, "that any Web site being proxied with something else in front of it would not accurately show what's really running the show behind the scenes -- IIS, for example -- and another reason for the decline is clear.". (Search Enterprise Linux)

    Microsoft Patches Core Applications  Jul 12, 2007
    The second fix, also reported to the company, addresses a remote code execution vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) 5. 1 server. (eSecurityPlanet)

    Vulnerability Advisory: McAfee Inc. Solutions Protect Against 11 Newly Disclosed Microsoft Windows Vulnerabilities  Jul 11, 2007
    NET Framework, and Internet Information Services (IIS) ... NET Framework, and Internet Information Services (IIS) ... NET Framework, Internet Information Services (IIS) vulnerabilities through signature sets released today. (PR Newswire)

    One patch for Active Directory is a doozy  Jul 11, 2007
    NET applications on Internet Information Services IIS ... NET applications on Internet Information Services IIS. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Microsoft patches critical Excel, Windows, .NET flaws  Jul 11, 2007
    The other is , which fixes another remote-execution flaw attackers could exploit by sending specially crafted URL requests to a Web page hosted by Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 ... The other is , which fixes another remote-execution flaw attackers could exploit by sending specially crafted URL requests to a Web page hosted by Internet Information Services (IIS) 5. (Search Security, MA)

    MS patches Active Directory flaw  Jul 11, 2007
    Net Framework as well as less-critical bugs in Microsoft Office Publisher, Internet Information Services (IIS), and the Vista firewall ... Microsoft rated this flaw as "important" rather than "critical," however, because it only affects XP systems, and IIS is not installed by default on XP.. (InfoWorld)

    Happy, Sad, Angry Or Astonished? Software Tells It All  Jul 10, 2007
    (Credit: Copyright Fraunhofer IIS) ... The system for rapid facial analysis is being developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen ... blbeck, project manager at the IIS. What s more, it is able to localize and analyze a large number of faces simultaneously. (Science Daily)

    July '07 Servers: Google Up, Apache Down  Jul 8, 2007
    In June, Google Front End (GFE) joined lighttpd, Apache, Microsoft IIS and Sun-ONE-Web-Server in the Top 5 ... At the time, Netcraft stated that while it acknowledges "GFE not a server product like Apache or Microsoft-IIS, Google's services are an increasingly popular alternative platform for running a blog or simple web site (googlepages.com), or content that would have formerly been hosted on a desktop or networked filesystem (e.g. spreadsheets.google.com).". (Datamation)

    IIS vs. Apache: Re-examining the statistics  Jun 30, 2007
    So it was with surprise then that I read another of Google s recent studies purporting that (although Apache and IIS Web servers contained malicious Web sites in equal numbers) ... I run multiple IIS and Apache Web servers on my , and my Apache Web servers get 89 percent more hacking traffic than my IIS servers ... Second, in general and contrary to traditional wisdom, the average Apache Web administrator has less security knowledge than the average IIS administrator. (InfoWorld)

    A-10s Get Digital Makeover  Jun 28, 2007
    "It's the largest upgrade the A-10 has ever had by far," said Maj. SADL automatically downloads the pertinent information and displays it on a screen in the cockpit. (DOD DefenseLINK)

    Windows Server 2008 CTP now available  Jun 27, 2007
    Microsoft made available today a Customer Technology Preview of Windows Server 2008 with its Web server IIS 7 ... Net Framework as a Server Core role to get more functionality out of the IIS 7 ... Microsoft made available today a Customer Technology Preview of Windows Server 2008 with its Web server IIS 7. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Experts weigh the good and bad of Windows Server Core  Jun 23, 2007
    Last month Microsoft added IIS 7 ... Net Framework as a Server Core role to allow IT administrators to get the full power out of the IIS 7 ... "Now you have IIS 7.0 in Server Core, next is the .Net Framework, then where is the security?" Ruest said. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux  Jun 23, 2007
    The value of the Microsoft SDL has been demonstrated in the past with applications such as Microsoft's widely used Internet Information Services (IIS), which has suffered fewer critical vulnerabilities due to increased security controls, according to Michael Sutton, a security evangelist with SPI Dynamics and former director of the Verisign iDefense labs. Still, Sutton said he is not ready to declare a winner in this long-standing security debate. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    WebDAV Makes Remote File Access a Snap  Jun 23, 2007
    Let's take a closer look at the dials and levers we need to adjust for IIS to provide WebDAV functionality. First, of course, we need to install Internet Information Services (IIS) somewhere ... You don't have to run IIS on your existing file server(s), and probably shouldn't. (EnterpriseStorageForum)

    Enterprise Hurdles Await iPhone  Jun 23, 2007
    OWA is enabled by default in Exchange 2000 and later, but https support, which allows OWA outside a corporate firewall, requires Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) to be set up with certificates to do SSL.. But, said Gold, "OWA is not sufficient." He noted that users will need immediate, and off-line, access to contacts, schedules and e-mail. (eWeek)

    Server Core roles could include Exchange and SAP  Jun 21, 2007
    Ralston talked with SearchWinIT.com recently about the future of Server Core and its pluses and minuses when going with roles such as IIS, virtualization and Active Directory in Server Core versus a full installation ... What are the benefits and drawbacks of the IIS 7 ... So, really, Server Core for IIS is going to be great for static Web pages or front-end Web servers that just write to a database. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Windows Server team delves deep into Server Core  Jun 20, 2007
    As the RTM date approaches, Microsoft keeps adding more minimal server roles to Server Core, the latest of which are IIS 7 ... As the RTM date approaches, Microsoft keeps adding more minimal server roles to Server Core, the latest of which are IIS 7. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Microsoft IIS a Popular Target For Malware  Jun 8, 2007
    Google's security team has published a report that indicates Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is as popular a target for delivering malicious payloads as its main, and more widely-used, rival, Apache Server. The from Nagendra Modadugu of Google's () Anti-Malware Team found that while Apache has almost three times the installed base 66 percent to 23 percent of IIS, the percentage of servers with malware () was evenly split, 49 percent each ... But in South Korea, 75 percent of the... (eSecurityPlanet)

    News from Microsoft TechEd 2007  Jun 8, 2007
    At Microsoft's biggest Windows confab, IT managers learned about a new generation of security tools, IIS 7 ... At Microsoft's biggest Windows confab, IT managers learned about a new generation of security tools, IIS 7. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Google: Percentagewise, IIS Serves Up Most Malware  Jun 8, 2007
    In surveying some 80 million domain names, Google has found that nearly half (49 percent) of the world's malware is coming from only 23 percent of its servers those being Microsoft's IIS servers. In Google's on June 5, an Anti-Malware Team member reported that IIS and Apache (also at 49 percent) evenly split up the malware served, even though Apache makes up almost three times the number of Web servers out there ... IIS servers constitute 23 percent of all servers, accounts for 4 percent and... (eWeek)

    Google: Attack code more likely on Microsoft IIS  Jun 6, 2007
    IDG News Service 06/05/2007. Web sites running Microsoft Corp.'s Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as other Web sites, according to research from Google Inc.. (ITworld -- News)

    Google: Attacks more likely with IIS  Jun 6, 2007
    Google: Attack code more likely on Microsoft IIS ... "Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often as a malware-distributing server," wrote Google's Nagendra Modadugu, in a Tuesday blog ... Together, IIS (Internet Information Services) and Apache servers host about 89 percent of all Web sites, but collectively, they're responsible for 98 percent of all Web-based malware. (InfoWorld)

    Microsoft Talks Details - Not Vision - at TechEd  Jun 6, 2007
    "With Server Core we built a really minimal installation of Windows Server and allow you to run roles such as Active Directory, file serving, DHTTP, DNS, and I'm glad to announce today that we've added IIS to the list of roles that can be run in Server Core," Muglia said. Regarding security, Microsoft announced an upcoming "unified" bundle of its Forefront security products. (Datamation)

    Microsoft Eschews Patch, Gives Exploit Code for IIS 5.0 Bug  Jun 5, 2007
    Microsoft Eschews Patch, Gives Exploit Code for IIS 5 ... Microsoft Eschews Patch, Gives Exploit Code for IIS 5 ... The exploit, which was discovered on Dec. 15, 2006, and made public at the end of May, works against IIS 5. (eWeek)

    Animals die in motorway fuel spill  Jun 1, 2007
    June 01, 2007 12:28pm. AN environmental disaster was narrowly averted after 38,000 litres of fuel leaked from a petrol tanker that rolled on the Pacific Motorway in Queensland. (NEWS.com.au)

    Loren lashes Tarantino and The Chaser  Jun 1, 2007
    The comedian says he iis trying something a little different in his latest show, Wil of God. Latest videos. (NEWS.com.au)

    Calif. firm sues Sony over the way it makes Blu-ray disks  May 29, 2007
    Lead Infrastructure Developer with C# / IIS / Web Services (excellent basic + benefi, London). ERP consultant (negociable, Belgium). (Register)

    MS Nixes Potential IIS 6.0 Flaw  May 25, 2007
    MS Nixes Potential IIS 6 ... MS Nixes Potential IIS 6 ... Microsoft on May 24 concluded an investigation into a potential IIS 6. (eWeek)

    "Longhorn" Does More with Less  May 23, 2007
    What's more, even though Longhorn's new IIS (Internet Information Services) 7. 0 Web server has grown more modular compared to previous versions, IIS 7. (eWeek)

    Use srvinfo to gather details about remote Windows Server 2003 servers  May 22, 2007
    -v: Get version info for Exchange, IIS, SQL ... It will display version information for Exchange, IIS, and SQL, if installed. (TechRepublic)

    Windows Server 2008: A look inside the new features for ...  May 19, 2007
    Features include IIS. NET Framework v 3. (SearchWindows2000.com)

    Windows Server 2008 Features Address Linux Challenge  May 18, 2007
    "We did a lot of work over the incremental work done in Internet Information Server IIS 6 and giving the tools to hosters so they had packages. But, really, the thrust behind IIS 7 was to respond to Linux and I think we have had an effect if you look at on Internet-facing Web server numbers," Laing said. Iain McDonald, the managing director for Windows Server, is also not worried about the competitive threat posed by leading Linux distributor Red Hat. (eWeek)

    Windows Home Server Security Concerns  May 17, 2007
    Home Server remote sharing is built on top of Microsoft's IIS version 6, which according to Kindel hasn't had a new vulnerability in years. He also said that when you enable the remote desktop feature, the server will enforce a strong password policy. (PC World)

    A Bustling Town in the '50s, Highland City Followed Citrus Industry's Decline  May 14, 2007
    Lisa Hall, principal of Highland City Elemenatary, iis a fixture in the commmunity and unoffficial historian. Since the town is unincorporated, much of Highland City's historical records are kept at the school. (The Ledger)

    ANI cursor flaw offers lessons in Vista security:  May 11, 2007
    He co-authored the book IIS Security and has written numerous technical articles for leading IT publications. Mike is the guest instructor for several SearchSecurity. (Search Security, MA)

    Scientists Explore Queen Bee Longevity  May 10, 2007
    Down-regulation of insulin-IGF-1 signaling (IIS) in those species was associated with increases in longevity but at the expense of fertility. They also knew that manipulating fat body cells in the head of the fruit fly influenced longevity. (Science Daily)

    IE7 and Vista: Using IE7 and Vista Safely  May 10, 2007
    Web browsers are client software programs, such as IE7, Netscape, and Opera, that connect to servers running Web server software (such as IIS or Apache) and request Web pages via a URL, which is a friendly address that represents an IP address and particular files on the server at that address. The browser receives files that are encoded (usually in Hypertext Markup Language HTML ) and must interpret the code or markup that determines how the page will be displayed on the user s monitor. (Datamation)

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