Administration Stack Overview

In addition to providing an extensible platform for building Web server features, IIS 7.0 focuses strongly on improving its manageability and simplifying application deployment. The cornerstone of this effort is the new administration stack that is built around the new configuration system to provide a full array of application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools for working with IIS configuration and performing management tasks.

The IIS 7.0 configuration system attempts to solve a number of critical limitations of its predecessor, the IIS 6.0 Metabase. First, it is no longer limited to a centralized Administrator-only configuration store, but instead supports a hierarchy of XML configuration files including those ...

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