TABLE OF CONTENTS Installation procedures were completely rewritten for Windows Vista and Longhorn Server. The previous installer, SysOcMgr.exe, has been replaced by a more modular setup process. To complicate matters, IIS 7.0 is broken down into many different feature sets, each of which has independent modules associated with it. Unlike previous versions of IIS, IIS 7.0 setup will install to your system only the selected modules and nothing more. This means that modules will not be physically present on the system. For this reason, it is imperative that you understand each feature set, and the subsequent modules, to be successful at installing only the features desired and nothing more and furthermore ensure that you do not install more than is needed.
Users need to understand that installation technology has been merged together for Windows Vista and Longhorn server. For IIS 7.0, it is important to evaluate the installation method that fits your environment. The following installation types are available:
Using Vista s Add Windows Features
Using Vista s Command-Line Package Manager (pkgmgr.exe)
Using Windows Server s Unattended Installation (code-named Longhorn )
IIS 7.0 is now modular, giving administrators and developers alike complete control of the features they require while minimizing the memory footprint of the Web server. Now not only are unneeded and unwanted components disabled, they aren t even installed. Previously, even if an administrator chose not to enable certain features of IIS, the modules making up those features still ran in memory, even though they didn t...
