TABLE OF CONTENTS The IIS Manager of the past, albeit familiar by now, was clunky and difficult to familiarize yourself with.The goals of the IIS 7.0 user interface took the strong points of the old MMC-based user interface and added intuitive, useful scenariobased usage patterns. So out came the all-new IIS Manager, built to be task-based and extensible in order to ensure that Web administrators could tackle the most common tasks with little effort.
For many, IIS Manager simply doesn t scale since it isn t capable of managing large Web farms where a multitude of Web servers exist for a single site or application. The environments need more automated ways of making changes, and to do so as quickly, and with as few errors, as possible. IIS 7.0 offers users a plethora of options in this space with AppCmd.exe, WMI, and Microsoft s Web.Administration API for managed code.
With a rewritten user interface, the first question that arises is how one can accomplish the same tasks using this new IIS Manager. The IIS Manager included with IIS 7.0 gets away from tabs (like IIS 6.0 s IIS Manager) and uses feature-based access for its configuration. To configure the most popular features, a wizard will walk you through step-by-step instructions to fully enable the feature.
It is important to understand how to do the most important tasks, such as creating new Web sites, application pools, and applications. Beyond that, the most common task is to change the security settings and diagnostics...
