IIS 7 Overview
by Pierre Boisvenue. 25/05/2007 1:47:07 PM
The purpose of this article is to gain the knowledge and understanding of what IIS 7 is and document the options provided.
Now currently, IIS 7 comes with 40 built in modules and more can be added as required.
Follow are snapshot of features that can be activated via
Programs and features in control panel.
To be noted is that selections here will be adding more features to the IIS managment console.
| IIS 6 managment console | Backward compatibility |
| IIS 6 Scripting Tools | Backward compatibility |
| IIS 6 WMI Compatibility | Backward compatibility |
| IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility | Backward compatibility |
| IIS management console | |
| IIS management Scripting Tools | |
| IIS 6 WMI Compatibility | |
| IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility | |
| IIS management services | |
| .Net Extensibilty | Allows to serve .net framework functionality. Tied to asp.net module |
| ASP | Allows to serve classic ASP |
| ASP.Net | Allows to serve ASP.Net web applications up to framework 3.0 |
| ISAPI Extensions | Allows ISAPI Extensions |
| ISAPI Filters | Allows ISAPI Filters |
| CGI | Allows CGI executable |
| Server Side Includes | .stm, shtm, shtml files allowed |
| Default Document | Allows for default startup documents to be defined. Tied to asp.net module. |
| Directory Browsing | Allows client to browse a directory via a browser |
| HTTP Errors | Use for cutomizing errors returned the the client |
| HTTP Redirection | Allows for HTTP redirection. |
| Static Content | Allows .htm and html files to be served |
| Custom Logging | |
| HTTP Logging | |
| Logging Tools | |
| ODBC Logging | |
| Request Monitor | |
| Tracing | |
| HTTP Compression Dynamic | |
| Static content compression | |
| BasicAuthModule | |
| DigestAuthModule | |
| WindowsAuthModule | |
| CertificateAuthModule | |
| AnonymousAuthModule | |
| IPSecurityModuleAuthModule | |
| URLAuthorizationModule | |
| RequestFilteringModule | |
IIS 7
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