Chapter 13. Managing Configuration and User Interface Extensions

Taking a look at the history of Internet Information Services (IIS) really underscores the importance of a flexible and manageable configuration system. What started as a few registry settings grew to the metabase with IIS 5.0, a binary store for maintaining URL-based configuration, which was replaced with an XML-based metabase in IIS 6.0. IIS 7.0 once again makes a leap toward better manageability, investing in a distributed XML file–based configuration system to enable delegated management and xcopy application ...

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