Just back from TechEd ITForum EMEA, manged to meet a few of the IIS team including Robert McMurray, Faith Allington, Fabio Yeon and Wade Hilmo to name a fewDuring a fantastic Q&A session on the last day a few feature ideas came out, some of which woudl require MS to take a look, some could be done by the community, so I thought I would drop them here for discussion
1. IIS as a new toy for dynamically adjusting Worker process timeout, to recover memory from idle WPs when the server is under stress. however this is a server setting, not a site or application pool setting, so, if enabled, one busy resource hungry site on a server, could jeopardise smaller less used apps which may required long session times. Some might say use the session state service, but small apps may not want to, or may be using classic ASP.
Thoughts ????
2. In some intranet environments and budget ISPs micro sites (folders in a shared hostname) are very popular. It may be nice to have folder level logging instead of site level selectable on a given site, or perhaps to simplify this, split the logs based on app pool. Using the App pool to define logging (as an option) would provide greater flexibility and allow log splitting on deep folders too
Thoughts ????
3. This one did not come out of the Q&A but from a media session. Apparently the creation and management of play lists on media series for 2008 cannot be scripted, or delegated. This of course may be wrong
Thoughts ????