Chapter 1. Introducing IIS 7.0

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 is a Web server that provides a secure, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting Web applications and services. IIS 7.0 has been completely redesigned and offers major advantages over previous versions of IIS. With its new modular and extensible architecture, IIS 7.0 makes developing, deploying, and configuring and managing Web applications and infrastructure easier and more efficient than ever before.

To put it simply, IIS 7.0 is the most powerful Microsoft ...

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