Web Host / Queue Monitoring supported on Windows Server 2008 / IIS?

I'm working with a colleague to set up this Message Queue service in our app. We're following the WebHostSample project and we published it to IIS on a Windows Server 2008 machine. The Queue processing works fine on the back end when we add queue messages, but the Queue Monitoring page (/QueueMonitor.cshtml), won't display the Queue tasks. The monitor page launches and displays fine, but none of the message items ever display there even though they come in on the back-end and get processed there just fine. We think it must be related to the version of IIS on Windows Server 2008 not supporting the web sockets layer that is used by the SignalR piece of the Queue Monitoring page.

Is this the case that the Web Host Queue Monitoring page in the sample project won't work on Windows Server 2008 / IIS?

We got it working fine on a Windows Server 2012 machine, but not Server 2008.

Start with the WebHostSample project and QueueMonitor.cshtml, then inspect how the SignalR-based monitoring page is hosted under IIS on Windows Server 2008 versus Windows Server 2012. Reproduce the missing queue items on both systems and determine whether the result is an environment limitation; done means documenting the compatibility finding and any supported configuration or workaround.