This time, I corralled Robert McMurray from the IIS team. He's working on publishing for IIS 7 some of which is not yet public info. The publishing story is in good hands with Robert as he has lots of great ideas about it (which he does not discuss in this podcast!). He's been working with IIS since --- IIS 1. Yikes. So he has career here is full of "institutional memory", and he's got a lot of good stories to tell. You can often find him at TechEds, PDCs etc as he's an avid "booth" worker and likes meeting customers. Besides that, he plays guitar!

Anyway, check out the interview at:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/IIS_Show

Not Bill G, silly, Bill S. Bill Staples the product unit manager for the IIS team which means the captain of the IIS boat.

He is often unpredictable about posting stuff that no one else yet knows about and he recently posted a new piece about RC1 and IIS 7.

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/09/05/IIS7...

There's no blockbuster news there aside from the fact the RC1 is done. Outside of Microsoft it looks like just another release for a belated OS, but internally people are working their butts off to get this done. It's an intrusting process to witness from inside.

Expect to see an updated LH Server build available to beta participants very, very soon!

As Bill says in is blog, Vista and Longhorn are coming together pretty well. I recently updated my main working system to Vista (a process we call dogfooding.) and RC1 is clearly the best release to date. Looks like we're on track to hit our release dates. This means that you can start looking at IIS 7 in vista as very, very indicative of what you will see in Longhorn Server. Aside from some spit and polish and some significant performance testing, there will be some features added that make sense for an enterprise or high capability sever, but otherwise, Vista bits and LH server bits for IIS 7 will be very much alike

-brett

CR1 of Vista has been officially released. I am hopeful that most of you can get it since it is a widely distributed release. IIS 7 is included in this release and it will be virtually identical to the RTM version.

The IIS team is working hard on IIS 7, sever version now which will be almost identical to the Vista release with added support for UNC paths and other server based features. In other words, applications you develop on Vista will work on Longhorn Server, so you can start understanding how it works as well as studying the new system. web. administration API, modular design etc.

You can check IIS.net for updated content.

-brett