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Testing IIS 7 for Yourself

30 October 2006 • by Bob • IIS

The momentum for IIS 7 is gradually building, and I keep seeing great things in the press and several blogs about it. You can read a few details below:

• IIS 7 Shows Continued Security Push
  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1988880,00.asp
• IIS 7
  http://pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2004/09/14/2262.aspx
• IIS 7.0 Learns a Few Tricks from Apache
  http://www.betanews.com/article/IIS_70_Learns_a_Few_Tricks_from_Apache/1126807433
• IIS 7 details released
  http://www.tomrafteryit.net/iis-7-details-released/

IIS 7 contains a number of great features, and there are a couple of ways that you can get your hands on it for testing without installing the Vista or Longhorn Beta:

• Microsoft is offering free virtual labs using IIS 7 on a virtual machine at the following URL:
  http://virtuallabs.iis.net/
• MaximumASP is hosting free web sites on IIS 7 at the following URL:
  http://iis7.maximumaspbeta.com/

Have fun!

Tags: IIS, IIS 7, Windows