The granular component design of IIS 7.0 is made easier to manage by allowing administrators
to delegate a significant number of IIS management tasks back to the developer
or Web site owner. If you host a large number of Web sites but you don??™t own the
content, this delegation model gives you the flexibility to hand off common administrative
tasks in a secure manner, removing yourself as the administrative bottleneck for
simple configuration changes that don??™t affect the stability of your server.
Version 7.0 also contains additional performance and troubleshooting capabilities
that didn??™t exist in previous versions. For example, you can see every request coming
into your server so you can track down the cause of problems or decipher which application
or request is using server resources. IIS 7.0 is not just another pretty coating on
top of an aging Web server architecture. It is a complete redesign of IIS and addresses
many of the complaints that both IIS administrators and developers have been voicing
for years. In this chapter, we explore the various aspects of IIS and how you can take full
advantage of them.
IIS 7.0 FEATURES
IIS 7.0 is designed around a set of key objectives and provides the following features:
?–? Ability to delegate administration
?– Flexible extensibility model to allow for customizations that have the added
effect of reducing the attack surface and increasing security
?– Integrated application and health management
?– Increased ability for diagnostic and troubleshooting (more insight into what IIS
is doing)
?– Much more intuitive administration tools
?–? True application Xcopy deployment
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