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Today, July 7^th, 10AM PT, 1PM ET – We are broadcasting the Michael Jackson memorial, live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight to the world.  As you can imagine this has come together fast so sorry for the last minute notice. Here’s the link below.

http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson

Today, we are announcing the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly. The SEO Toolkit Beta is available for installation via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta.

The IIS SEO Toolkit Beta is a piece of the larger Microsoft Web Platform strategy, which enables developers and end-users to build great websites, experiences, and achieve success in the Web ecosystem.

The toolkit can:

• Improve the volume and quality of traffic to Web site from search engines
• Control how search engines access and display Web content
• Inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing

The IIS SEO Toolkit includes three modules that integrate with IIS Manager:

• Site Analysis, which suggests changes that can help improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines;
• Robots Exclusion, which makes it easier to control and restrict the content that search engines index and display; and
• Sitemaps and Site Indexes, which can help inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing.

The IIS SEO Toolkit Beta can be installed with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta.

For more information, visit: http://www.iis.net/extensions/SEOToolkit

For more information on the Microsoft Web Platform, visit www.microsoft.com/web

To follow Microsoft Web Platform on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mswebplatform

Zend has released both the commercial and community editions of Zend Server.  Zend created a new set of development tools, a framework to build applications and collaborated with Microsoft. Zend has been working with Microsoft since 2006 to make PHP  a first-class citizen on Windows. The collaboration between Microsoft and Zend led to the development of the FastCGI component for IIS and the SQL Server for PHP extension.  Zend Server is designed provide added functionality to an Apache or IIS. Performance management, monitoring. security and patch/update deployment for PHP are also areas of functionality.

I spent part of my weekend installing PHP on IIS7.  I thought I would point you to a few links that might be helpful if you’re considering an install:

TechNet: Running PHP on IIS

Channel 9: Installing PHP Applications on IIS

I found this article from back in July, but If you weren’t aware, Windows Server 2008 has improvements that enable PHP to run more efficiently than previous Windows Server releases. Click here to see the posting at the Windows Server Performance Blog.