A free download, the Web Application Configuration Analyzer scans IIS servers, hosted applications, and SQL Server instances for common security issues and misconfigurations.

Visual Studio 2022 runs very smoothly. IIS can be enabled just by checking the options in the “turn Windows features on or off dialog,” just like on x86 Windows. SSMS installs and runs perfectly.

Now why would you want to do that, one may ask given that Windows (and hence IIS) as well as SQL Server are proprietary products. There are a few reasons for this. First off, on Windows Server ...

Extended support for this version of IIS ended in July 2015 along with support for its parent product, Windows Server 2003. Even so, independent web server surveys suggest that IIS 6.0 still ...

Really all I’m interested in is this: I want to take exactly what I do now – run Visual Studio, SQL Server, and IIS in a Windows VM on my Intel MacBook Pro – and do the exact same thing, but ...