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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit

by Olga M. Londer Mike Volordarsky Brett Hill, Bernard Cheah, Steve Schofield, Carlos Aguiar Mares, Kurt Meyer, and Microsoft IIS Team
March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
24h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit

Securing Configuration

Previous versions of IIS have used a centralized configuration store known as the metabase. IIS 7.0 abandons the metabase in favor of a new configuration system based on a hierarchy of XML configuration files, in order to provide for simpler deployment and more flexible management of the Web server.

Note

Note

You can learn more about the new IIS 7.0 configuration system in Chapter 4.

In this section, we will take a look at the files that comprise the IIS 7.0 configuration hierarchy and how they are accessed. We will also review security best practices for limiting access to these files to ensure that the configuration contained therein ...

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