Managing Administration Extensions

The IIS 7.0 configuration system provides a structured mechanism for controlling the behavior of IIS and its features. In a way, the configuration system exposes an object model for IIS, enabling you to inspect and control IIS objects such as sites, application pools, applications, and virtual directories. The configuration system is also extensible through the configuration section schema, which enables additional Web server functionality to expose configuration through its object model.

Though the ability to manage Web server configuration is its primary purpose, the IIS 7.0 configuration system takes the concept of a management object model to the next logical level. It enables configuration sections to also ...

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