I was scheduled to speak @ the Richmond.NET User Group's December meeting on last Thursday. Around 40+ people showed up for the meeting including Kevin Hazzard and Justin Etheredge.

Decent crowd showed up (40+) and I had fun speaking about IIS 7.0 and its integration with ASP.NET. I am making the slides available on this blog; I hope that would help.

IIS 7.0 Architecture and Integration with ASP.NET [ Presentation ]

I will be speaking @ the December Richmond .NET User Group meeting which will be on December 4th. The following summarizes what will be covered in the presentation.

Microsoft recently released IIS 7.0, new version of good old IIS. IIS 7.0 bring new concepts and architecture. The aim of this presentation is to discuss the new features of IIS 7.0 and also discuss what it brings to table for the ASP.NET developers. We will discuss IIS 7.0's integration with ASP.NET as well.

We will be meeting @ the Markel Plaza which is located @ 4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Hope to see you there!

Recently Microsoft released couple of guides which basically target IT Professionals who are responsible for installing and managing infrastructure (web servers, Active Directory, Terminal Services, etc). Some of the technologies such as Active Directory, IIS 7.0, Terminal Services, etc are covered in those guides. Check them out @ the following URL Infrastructure Planning and Design.

If you are a Software Architect then I am sure there are times when you are asked for some recommendations, ideas, and suggestions about the hardware and overall system architecture which will run the applications that you architect. Since most of us are developing web applications these days, hence IIS is the backend technology that we should learn, explore and play with whenever we get a chance. One of the guides available @ the above URL is on IIS 7.0 and I think every Architect should read it in order to get some idea about the factors involved while taking decisions about the architecture for IIS 7.0 environment.