A few months ago, I wrote a post about websockets and IIS7 , explaining how some extensive hacking is needed to get websockets working and providing a link to an application that would accomplish just that. That post was very popular - Microsoft developers are obviously looking for ways to implement web sockets, and there is not a lot of documentation out there to assist them yet. With the release of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft is now including native suppor t for WebSockets. Unfortunately the 2008 hack (released by HTML5Labs) is now deprecated, and has been removed from the developer's website. Because there is so much interest, and no longer a fix to implement websockets in IIS7 that I am readily aware of, I am going to start putting together some information for developers here on IIS8. This post will just have the basics, and I will expand on the topic through later posts. To get started, it is necessary to enable the WebSocket Protocol Module. The module is available as a