Summary

IIS 7.0 has been completely redesigned and re-engineered from the ground up. IIS 7.0 offers major advantages over previous versions of IIS and makes developing, deploying, and configuring and managing Web applications and infrastructure easier and more efficient than ever before.

IIS 7.0 delivers many new powerful features and functionality based on the following key enhancements:

  • Modularity. IIS 7.0 architecture is fully componentized. It enables administrators to customize which features are installed and running on the Web server. With more than 40 feature modules that can be independently installed, administrators can reduce the potential attack surface and lower the footprint requirements of the server.

  • Extensibility. The core Web server ...

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