Office 2007 Mime Types (for IIS)

.docm,application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12
.docx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
.dotm,application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12
.dotx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template
.potm,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12
.potx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template
.ppam,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12
.ppsm,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12
.ppsx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow
.pptm,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12
.pptx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
.xlam,application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12
.xlsb,application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12
.xlsm,application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12
.xlsx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
.xltm,application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12
.xltx,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template

http://www.fixya.com/support/microsoft

thanks

E.Ravi

Good article on Server Load Balancing and its Benefits from tech Brief.

Good tool to separate Audio from your Video Disk.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Virtualdub : Tool

http://www.free-codecs.com/VirtualDub_download.htm   More codecs and players.

Free tool to Separate Audio from VCD.

Thanks to Virtualdub

CAL: This is about CAL (Client Access License) - I get questions from my client whether there is need for a CAL during the purchase of MS products: Application Center, BizTalk Server,Commerce Server, CMS.....

Finally i got a Matrix from MS which gives a clear cut on whether there is a need for CAL or not.

For more info : http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/lic_cal.mspx 

Excellant Resource for Clutering in various MS products.

 This will help of getting all the shreapoint resources in one place.

 SharePoint Products and Technologies Performance and Capacity Planning Resources

1. Plan for availability (Windows SharePoint Services)
2. Plan for availability (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
3. Plan for performance and capacity (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
4. Determining the hardware requirements for a single farm (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
5. Performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services)
6. Performance and capacity planning factors (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
7. Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
8. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers - Performance Summary
9. White Paper: Intel Performance Testing of Windows SharePoint Services

Now Hotmail has announced of registering to get username@live.com mail ids.

 You would have noticed only very few have username@msn.com mail ids.(I got it eravi@msn.com)  MSN released this 4 years back with limited period of time and only for specific countries.

 Now MSN has released of getting live mail ids with same storage and functionality of hotmail.com

You can register here :http://get.live.com/en-us/wl/signup New!

Again i got as eravi@live.com !!!

Good for tracking the visitors and pages viewed for your website.It is purely free of cost.

You can enable using four line code given during the successful registration.

http://www.histats.com/

October is full of learning opportunities around IIS 7.0. Throughout the entire month we’ll be producing webcasts covering IIS 7.0 in its entirety starting with what’s new to troubleshooting and diagnostics. This is a great way to get ramped up and ready to deploy IIS 7.0

Secure your web server.

Patches and Updates,IISLockdown,Services,Protocols,Accounts,Files and Directories,Shares,Ports,Registry,Auditing and Logging,Sites and Virtual Directories,Script Mappings,ISAPI Filters,IIS Metabase,Server Certificates,Machine.config,Code Access Security,Other Check Points,Dos and Don'ts

Patches and Updates

1. MBSA is run on a regular interval to check for latest operating system and components updates.
2. The latest updates and patches are applied for Windows, IIS server, and the .NET Framework. (These are tested on development servers prior to deployment on the production servers.)

 IISLockdown

1. IISLockdown has been run on the server.
2. URLScan is installed and configured.

Services

1. Unnecessary Windows services are disabled.
2. Services are running with least-privileged accounts.
3. FTP, SMTP, and NNTP services are disabled if they are not required.
4. Telnet service is disabled.
5. ASP .NET state service is disabled and is not used by your applications.

Protocols

1.   WebDAV is disabled if not used by the application OR it is secured if it is required. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 323470, "How To: Create a Secure WebDAV Publishing Directory."
2.   TCP/IP stack is hardened.
3.   NetBIOS and SMB are disabled (closes ports 137, 138, 139, and 445)