Well, I just had to post this, since it's all gushy and everything about how brilliant I am. Of course, they make it sound so much better than it is. If you want a truly humbling experience of how little you know about IIS, have a drink with Mike Volodarsky, or Carlos Aguilar Mares or Thomas Deml or Eric Deily or Wade Hilmo or about 30 other people at Microsoft. Of course, the cool thing is I get to do that occasionally.

 Re: the book, yes I am working on a book for MS Press that will be part of the Windows Server 2008 Resource Guide. If anyone out there knows me, this is a big deal since I've somehow managed to by all these years without writing a book. Not that I haven't tried! I just found that it was way toooooo time consuming and a good technical guy can make more doing other things. Of course, it's a good way to build your reputation, but when you had the number 1 site on google when you typed in IIS, my content and programs for training we already highly discoverable. So, a book didn't really make sense for me. Now, though, that I'm a just another newb at Microsoft and my sites rankings have languished, it makes sense to do something to stoke the flames of fame and fortune. Ha! Like a resource guide ever make anyone famous or rich. In truth, the reason I'm doing this is because it needs to be done and I'm a unique situation to help it along.Other writers (some of which you will recognize) are deeply involved, but I can't speak for them. 

So hop on over to applied.net and get yourself an IIS7 site!

-brett 

Other The Guy that wrote the book on IIS7 (well is writing)

That’s Microsoft’s, Brett Hill in the middle. Brett is writing ‘the book on IIS7′ and has been instrumental in our launching of IIS7 hosting.  You always think you know a program better than anyone else out there and then a guy like Brett comes along and reminds you just how much more you need to learn.  Brett’s truly the expert on IIS7 and you can often find him posting over at www.iis.net.

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