Overview of IIS Manager

IIS Manager is a server administration tool that enables you to configure IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET features from one fully integrated interface. You can get health and diagnostic information and monitor a server’s operation including currently running requests, and you can also administer membership. With its task-based intuitive GUI interface, the tool is aimed at simplifying the administration tasks and reducing management complexity.

IIS Manager in IIS 7.0 is much easier to use in comparison with the previous versions of the IIS management console. In previous versions of IIS, the server management console was implemented as a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in called Inetmgr.exe. The MMC snap-in interface consisted ...

Get Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.