Blogging software?

[telophase]

Does anyone here know of blogging software that runs on a Windows server? Preferably one that won't force me to learn how to install PHP and MySQL?* Blogging is a hot topic in the library world and I've gotten aksed about its applicability here off and on for the past year, and someone FINALLY came up with an application for the library webpage that would actually work with blogging software. It's got to offer an RSS feed of some sort - I want to be able to scrape headlines off of it to post on the front page, with links to the entry itself.

So:

Windows server
I want to host all the content ourselves, not have it on another server
RSS feed
And oh yeah - while I could probably convince the library to pick up a site license for an inexpensive one, FREE is always much better. Which means, from a cursory inspection, Movable Type it out, because the free version is for personal use only.



* I'll do it if I have to. I just don't want to.


And now I'm heading to lunch, so i anyone answers in the next hour, I won't reply. XD

Comments

[sleary.livejournal.com]

My new(ish) place of employment runs nothing but IIS servers. I looked for compatible blog software in every nook and cranny of the intarweb, and I've come to the conclusion that you can have good, free, or IIS-compatible. Pick one.

Avoid CommunityServer like the plague. We spent two months dicking around with it, trying to get it to work properly, and after all that, you know what we have? WordPress (and Apache!) running on an old machine.

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Forgot to add: I do have a copy of MT 2.661, the last free version. Email me if you want it. It's quite prone to comment and trackback spam, but I don't believe it has any major security holes.

[sleary.livejournal.com]

You'd think LJ could manage to keep me logged in for the time it takes to type two comments.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D It's taken to posting my replies at random within a post in the past day or so. At least one I figured out was due to someone deleting the comment at the same exact time as I posted, but there's been a couple of other times I couldn't figure it out, and I'm pretty sure I hit "reply" for that particular comment and not the post.

The MT 2.661 sounds like it might be worth testing - I plan on disabling comments anyway unless the library REALLY REALLY WANTS them on there, so the spammage shouldn't be a problem.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh, that figures.

My boss mentioned at some point not being averse to installing Apache on some machine, but he's so overwhelmed with the catalog right now that I don't want to mention it to him until we've got the new person hired to take on part of his workload.

I just have to remember which machine he gave me free reign on vis-a-vis installing things like PHP and Perl and so on - I'd started to play with it, but got distracted by a Very Important Project Drop Everything Now type thing and never got back to it.