13.4. Management

IIS 7.0 has four main tools used to provision and configure the web services:

Server Manager

In the Server Manager, you can see an overview of your websites, install or remove role services, view the event log (if you have installed that service), determine system service states, and view IIS Manager.

Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

Since the IIS Manager is an MMC snap-in, when you install the IIS Management Console role service it can be opened in its own console view. The command that opens IIS Manager is found in the Administrative Tools folder.

Any role service that isn't installed won't show up in the IIS Manager. ...

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