IIS.NET Community Blogs Retirement

Hello everyone! After a careful review and taking a look at the number of recent posts, the team has decided it’s time to close down the IIS.NET Community Blogs and switch them to read-only archives. Because we know there is a lot of amazing and useful content here, we’re keeping the existing content live but we won’t allow adding of new content. The IIS Community blogs have played an important role in supporting the developer and IT communities by providing technical insights, best practices, and thought leadership across the web development and platform space. We’d like to thank our readers, contributors, and partners for their continued support and engagement for so many years!

Some important questions and answers:

Q: When will the site stop accepting new blog posts?

A: June 1^st, 2025

Q: Will all the URLs stay the same?

A: Yes! Any existing links you have to all the great content will still work after we migrate everything.

Q: I’m a blog author – can I export my content?

A: You can always export your content, but how you do it will change. From now until June 10^th, 2025, you can use the build in tools in the publishing platform. After June 10^th, all exports will be a Save via your web browser.

Q: I’m a blog author – can you delete my blog?

A: You can reach out to us via the email address in the Contact Us below.

Q: When will all the content migrate to read-only archives?

A: No later than June 15^th, 2025.

DSR instructions

The IIS.NET Community Blogs use the Orchard CMS publishing platform. This platform provides the website bloggers the ability to self-serve Data Subject Requests (DSR).

Exporting Blog Content

If you are a blogger on the website and wish to export your data, up until June 10, 2025, you can follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your blog, then access your blog Dashboard through the dropdown menu in the blog header.
2. On the Dashboard, scroll down to the Import/Export link and click it.
3. From here, click the Export tab. Then choose the details on what you would like to export.
   • Types
     • Most bloggers will want to check the following types:
       • Blog Post: this will include all the posts made on the blog.
       • Image: this will include all of the images that were uploaded into the Media section.
     • If more customizations have been done to the blog, you may want to choose additional types. Note that you can perform multiple exports, choosing different types, to see what each type contains.
   • Metadata/Data
     • We recommend checking both Metadata and Data. Metadata is the definition of the content types, and Data is the actual content.
   • Version History
     • If you want to export your drafts, that will require a separate export from the published versions.
   • Custom steps
     • You should leave both of these options (Roles, Sitemap) unchecked.
4. Click the Export button to begin the export process. After a period of time, the exported content will be delivered to your browser, with the filename “export.xml”.
5. The export.xml file can then be used as desired, for importing into other platforms, archiving, etc.

After June 10, 2025, you can use your browser’s Save page feature to save any desired page locally to your computer. In most browsers this is done with a Ctrl+S (Windows) or Cmd+S (Mac).

Contact Us

If you have a question that has not been answered above, you can reach out to us at aspiisblogsretirement@service.microsoft.com.

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