6.1. Configuring the basics for all applications
The smart folks at Microsoft have already set up IIS to efficiently host your websites and web applications by preconfiguring the basics by default. Each application you install may benefit from tweaking the basic configuration, either in performance or functionality. I want you to see what Microsoft has done so you can customize or modify these basic options when needed.
It’s also time to remove a layer of black box or abstraction from how IIS stores all these configuration settings. IIS 7/8 use an amazingly simple method of storing your configuration settings that will provide a unique (and necessary) feature, covered in chapter 17, known as Shared Configurations, for web farms that provide failover ...
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