Microsoft.Web.Administration API interface<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The GUI Management interface has also been redesigned, the new IIS Manager is now more task-oriented and action based, as we know\u00a0from ISA Server and the new Exchange Server 2007.<\/p>\n
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\nFigure B<\/strong>: Screenshot of the IIS Manager<\/p>\nIIS Manager can be used to configure IIS and ASP.NET settings, the configuration settings will be written to the xml configuration files. As something new, Health and diagnostics information can now be seen and run as integrated tools directly from within IIS Manager and is already a part of IIS 7.0.<\/p>\n
APPCMD is the new main general purpose command prompt tool for IIS 7.0, which can be used for administration and configuration of IIS. APPCMD is the new enhanced version of the old adsutil.vbs, for those of you who are familiar with that tool from IIS 6.0.<\/p>\n
Remote Administration has been enhanced and is now possible using the IIS Manager, communicating securely over https to the web server.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also the option of scripting all IIS management. This is now done using Windows PowerShell, which is Microsoft\u2019s new scripting language. It\u2019s an easy and effective way of handling administration of IIS on your web server and this is especially useful if you manage several web servers or large web farms. Windows PowerShell can be used directly against the WMI interface of IIS or used to read and write in the IIS 7.0 XML configuration files.<\/p>\n
IIS 7.0 has backward compatibility with the IIS 6.0 metabase and the ADSI and WMI scripting interface known from IIS 6.0, which means that all your old scripts for IIS 6.0 will still work on IIS 7.0.<\/p>\n
Microsoft.Web.Administration API is the interface targeted\u00a0to\u00a0developers, who want to code their own programs or scripts to manage IIS 7.0.<\/p>\n
In IIS 7.0 it\u2019s now possible to delegate the management of IIS and the web sites. You can now delegate full administrative access to the site owners of a website. The site owners can then control and manage all the website settings using IIS Manager, without compromising server security. All the settings the site owners manage, are written to the web.config xml file of their own website.<\/p>\n
Configuration<\/h2>\n
The configuration has been made simple and is based on distributed XML files that hold the configuration settings for the entire IIS and ASP.NET.<\/p>\n
Configuration settings can be done globally for the entire web server or for specific websites using either the XML files or through the GUI Management interface. The GUI just writes the configuration settings to the same XML files. The main xml configuration files\u00a0in IIS 7.0 are:<\/p>\n
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Applicationhost.config<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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Global web.config<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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Machine.config<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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Site web.config<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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App web.config<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
By using xml based configuration files, deployment and scale-out in large web hosting environments has been optimized. It\u2019s fairly easy to copy the IIS configuration to a new server and be up and running relatively quickly.<\/p>\n
Handling replication of web server configuration is also relatively easy with IIS 7.0 compared to IIS 6.0, because of the xml based configuration files. This makes it very easy to replicate and deploy configurations in larger web farm environments. With IIS 6.0 this was best handled by using Microsoft Application Center 2000 or other 3rd party products.<\/p>\n
Shared Configuration is a new feature of IIS 7.0, which is designed for web farm scenarios. With Shared Configuration it\u2019s now possible for multiple web servers to share a single configuration file (applicationhost.config). A master of the applicationhost.config file will be placed on a common UNC path. The Shared Configuration feature is a great alternative to the perspective of replicating IIS settings.<\/p>\n
The Applicationhost.config xml file is the main configuration file of IIS 7.0, this configuration file contains all the information about sites, virtual directories, applications, application pools and global settings for the web server.<\/p>\n
Content replication can relatively easy been managed by simple x-copy or robocopy commands, as well as specific website configurations, which are saved in web.config xml files within each website.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n
With the redesign of IIS, Microsoft has really focused on making the IIS 7.0 a better web server for everyone, from IT Professionals, Developers to Web Hosters. To sum up I\u2019ll try to highlight some of the main reasons why I believe IIS 7.0 is a strong product:<\/p>\n
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The product is more secure \u2013 only the binaries needed are installed<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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It\u2019s extendable in a flexible way, because of the new modular architecture<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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It\u2019s easier to scale-out \u2013 because of the simplicity in configuration, based on xml files<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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Better performance \u2013 due to the improvements to the\u00a0core\u00a0of IIS (http.sys)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There are plenty of opportunities for trying out IIS 7.0 yourself and getting familiar with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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