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The next step

It's been one week since I left Microsoft, and what a week its been! I dont remember the last time I was on so little sleep :) I'll be making some changes to www.mvolo.com and posting more info about the new stuff shortly. I have to say though Read More...

Posted 27 May 08 01:46 by Mike Volodarsky | 0 Comments   
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Leaving Microsoft ...

After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. Looking back , I can say that my experience at Microsoft has been truly amazing. I got to ship two amazing Read More...

Posted 14 May 08 05:54 by Mike Volodarsky | 11 Comments   
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Mvolo.com moves again

Ever since I started blogging about IIS 7.0, I had the plan to do it on a server that was running the actual technology I was blogging about ... I deviated a little from the plan when I first stated out, making the first few posts using GoDaddy's Read More...

Posted 25 April 08 03:02 by Mike Volodarsky | 0 Comments   
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IIS 7.0 ships: a trip down memory lane

After 5 years in development, IIS 7.0 is finished ! Personally, it is hard to believe that it is over. I remember joining the IIS 7.0 team over 4 years ago, when the project was in its infancy, to drive the design of the web server engine. I remember Read More...

Posted 28 February 08 12:39 by Mike Volodarsky | 8 Comments   
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Mvolo.com is back!

After several weeks of move-related outages, mvolo.com is back online at its new home at MaximumASP. I am temporarily retiring the old server that sat in my friend's garage for the past 8 months, until I decide to self-host it again in my new apartment. Read More...

Posted 23 September 07 11:41 by Mike Volodarsky | 3 Comments   
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Temporary mvolo.com outages

You may have noticed mvolo.com being unavailable at certain points over the past two days. I am in the process of moving the server across the country, and that combined with certain other toubles with the internet setup is contributing to spotty availability. Read More...

Posted 13 September 07 06:39 by Mike Volodarsky | 1 Comments   
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Aruba!

If you havent heard from me in a while, its because I've been busy getting married and enjoying the honeymoon in the Caribbean! I'll be returning next week and will be picking up the pace posting some new content and goodies for IIS7 (which, by Read More...

Posted 04 July 07 01:16 by Mike Volodarsky | 2 Comments   
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DNS Trouble - please bear with me

I've been having a lot of DNS trouble over the past week, caused by the router losing its dynamic IP address and the DNS records becoming invalid, causing the blog to be unavailable. After months of keeping the same IP, the router decided to lose Read More...

Posted 02 April 07 10:32 by Mike Volodarsky | 1 Comments   
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A look at the IIS7 web server in MSDN magazine

The march edition of MSDN magazine is live, containing my article about the IIS7 web server in Windows Vista. The article is an overview of the many features and architectural changes in IIS7, that hopefully will point people towards the specific things Read More...

Posted 14 February 07 06:42 by Mike Volodarsky | 7 Comments   
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The self-hosted journey is finally coming to an end

After several months with GoDaddy's QuickBlog, I am finally moving over to a self-hosted IIS7 server running Community Server. Read More...

Posted 19 December 06 03:59 by Mike Volodarsky | 6 Comments   
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Free no-hassle blogging with Quick Blog

In my first ever blog post, I mentioned that my dream was to eventually self-host my blog on home IIS7 server, running latest Windows “Longhorn” builds with many cool features based on modules I write while working on IIS7 at my job on the IIS team. In the past month that the blog has been up, I have thoroughly enjoyed GoDaddy’s free Quick Blog feature, which has allowed me to have a fully featured blog up and running minutes after I paid for the www.mvolo.com domain name. So, before I move at the end of this month, I wanted to share my experience with Quick Blog. Read More...

Posted 07 November 06 11:53 by Mike Volodarsky | 12 Comments   
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The first ever blog post

I’ve wanted to start a blog for many years, and finally decided that if I don’t just do it now, I never will. For the past 3 years, I’ve been planning to set up a server for blogging, and to show off some of the cool technology we’ve Read More...

Posted 29 September 06 08:29 by Mike Volodarsky | 7 Comments   
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For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
Now, I work on advanced web server tech using IIS 7.0, .NET, and Windows Server 2008 and write about it in this blog.

Writings

TechNet Magazine
>Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

MSDN Magazine
>IIS 7.0: Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
>Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications

LeechGuard
IconHandler 2.0
DirectoryListing
HttpRedirection
IIS Auth for Wordpress
iisschema.exe
PortCheck.exe v2.0

- ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0
- Develop IIS7 modules and handlers with .NET
- Troubleshoot IIS7 errors like a pro
- Troubleshooting 503 / "service unavailable" errors
- Troubleshooting "server not found" errors
- Create IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories
- Run Ruby on Rails with IIS FastCGI
- VS Debugging of ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista
- Stop hot-linking with IIS and ASP.NET

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