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This week at Tech-Ed Bob Muglia announced that IIS7 would be supported as a role in Windows Server Core 2008. If you’re not familiar with Server Core, it’s a trimmed down version of Windows Server 2008 with just the bare minimum bits needed to run.

Over the past few months we’ve had the great pleasure here at Applied Innovations to work with Microsoft and the IIS team at Microsoft as one of the earliest IIS7 Early Adopters. During the beta testing of Longhorn we had the opportunity to test Server Core and below is a short video of Carlos Caneja and myself discussing  our experience with IIS7 and Server Core with Microsoft’s own Mario Juarez and Eric Woersching (From the IIS Team).

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This week Applied Innovations officially launched IIS7 hosting. We’re offering hosting on the Beta of Longhorn / IIS7 as part of the Microsoft Early Adopter Program (Actually, I think we’re early Early Adopters as I believe only 2 other companies are offering IIS7 beta hosting today). Unlike the other hosting providers that are offering beta hosting only to their existing customers, Applied Innovations is taking it up a notch and offering beta hosting to anyone that’s interested in getting a sneak peek at IIS7.  So if you haven’t signed up for your IIS7 beta hosting account yet, now would be a good time to do so, http://www.appliedi.net/iis7-hosting/.

The past week was a big week for Applied Innovations, the ASP.NET team finally set ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) as RTM and as a result we released full support for it.

I’ve been a big fan of AJAX for a long time and in fact, it’s used in my blog theme here with the search box. Ofcourse my blog is done in PHP but the concepts are the same.

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A follow up to Smartertools answers the cry on the fight against spam with smartermail 4.0.

Alot of clients have been asking about how we’re handling spamassassin with Smartermail 4.0.  It’s no secret that spamassassin on a windows server runs horribly slow. If more than a handful of domains are involved I have no doubt that spamassassin would cripple the server if not fail completely.  However I also believe that greylisting is the more effective component in the smartertools anti-spam arsenal and will reduce spam to a fraction of what it would be with just spamassassin alone.

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Applied Innovations is pleased to sponsor WebmastersDepot.com and we look forward to long and growing relationship with Webmastersdepot.com.  Webmastersdepot.com is an online webmaster and web developer forum that strives to become one of the premiere forums on the Internet.  Webmastersdepot.com is ideal for the beginning web developer to the advanced web developer looking to share tips, notes and build an online community of adult web professionals.

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