Leaving Microsoft ...

After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week.

Looking back, I can say that my experience at Microsoft has been truly amazing. I got to ship two amazing products, ASP.NET 2.0, and IIS 7.0. I got to do what I love to do – design and build platform technology, while working with great people on the most ambitious web technologies Microsoft has ever released.

I wrote more about my experience at Microsoft on my iis.net blog.

Starting next week, I will be working on a few projects around web server performance, shared hosting and scalable web farms. I'll also be working directly with customers to implement IIS 7.0 solutions using the latest and greatest IIS 7.0 capabilities.

Also, you can count on me continuing to blog about using and extending IIS 7.0.

In the meantime, if you have an interesting IIS 7.0 project in mind and need help, let me know.

Sincerely,

Mike

Published 14 May 08 05:54 by Mike Volodarsky

Filed under: Other, IIS7

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# uestc95 said on May 14, 2008 10:22 PM:

Good luck.

# Madhur said on May 14, 2008 11:53 PM:

Hey its sad to see you go .. .Wish you all the best ..

# Vlad said on May 15, 2008 7:32 AM:

И куда теперь?

# Pablo Weyne said on May 15, 2008 8:55 AM:

It is a great loss for Microsoft. Thank you for your help

# Ken said on May 15, 2008 10:51 AM:

Mike, I have enjoyed your writings and your contributions to IIS. I wish you much success in whatever it is your take on for the future. Hopefully you will still be sharing and contributing your knowledge to the masses. Good luck.

# David Fauber said on May 16, 2008 3:53 PM:

Good luck, your blog has been a great source of information.

# Martin Kulov said on May 16, 2008 6:45 PM:

Good luck Mike, I really hope that you will continue to blog. I really love your posts. Thanks, Martin

# Bernard Cheah said on May 17, 2008 10:56 PM:

It's been a pleasure to work with you on the reskit book :) what sad is that haven't got a chance to meet you in person, thought you were in campus during MVP summit :( Anyway - best of luck, keep all the good stuff about IIS7.0 coming, and tell us all the stories about your experience unleashing IIS 7.0...

# Mike Volodarsky said on May 19, 2008 2:01 AM:

Thanks everyone! I should mention that I am still going to be bloggng about IIS 7.0 quite a bit, quite possibly more so then I have been in the past few months.

More later this week ...

Thanks,

Mike

# Web in Abruzzo said on May 19, 2008 2:59 AM:

Mike,

I've always read your blog with pleasure. I will hope that your decision doesn't mean to keep off your spare time from teaching us new techy tricks on IIS and Microsoft platform.

# setekh said on May 19, 2008 3:14 PM:

Good luck ! Успех !

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For the past 5 years, I was the core Program Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0 products. I drove the design and development of the IIS 7.0 web server core, the IIS FastCGI support, the AppCmd command line tool, the ASP.NET Integrated pipeline, and other special projects around server security, performance, and scalability. Now, I am working on my own on cutting edge web server tech on top of the Microsoft IIS platform, and continue blogging about it here.

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For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
Now, I work on advanced web server tech using IIS 7.0, .NET, and Windows Server 2008 and write about it in this blog.

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>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
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