Summary

Internet Information Services 7.5 web services have been completely rewritten from IIS 6.0. Improvements have been made to the configuration that includes moving configuration to XML-based files from the metabase.

This opens up simple and flexible administration. IIS 7.5 web services are also based on modules. Modules are installed to add functionality. Only the required modules are installed to reduce server hardware and maintenance. This chapter covered creating websites, applications, virtual directories, and application pools and other configuration tasks.

Although the SMTP server is largely unchanged from previous versions, it provides valuable functionality. This chapter covered configuration for sending and relaying email. Although ...

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