The Last Word
IIS 7 is a complex beast, and in this chapter we walked through its major and some of its more minor features. We looked at the new architecture, installing IIS, managing it graphically via the newly redesigned Internet Information Services Manager console and from the command line, and we examined how you can administer and configure IIS objects from its great XML-based configuration schemes. There's obviously much more to IIS than resides within the scope of this book, but you now have a good idea of what's new and improved in this version, and where the settings and switches reside.
The bottom line: IIS 7 represents a huge leap forward in the stability, performance, overhead use, and extensibility of hosting on the Windows platform. It truly is a next-generation web server product.
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