About IIS

We can use Microsoft Web Platform Installer to install Internet Information Services(IIS) and applications that run on IIS. However there is also another way i.e. we can do it manually. I prefer the manual way to install IIS.

What is an IIS Application?

An IIS application is a visual Basic application that lives on a web server and responds to requests from the browser. An IIS application uses HTML to present its user interface and uses complied Visual Basic code to process requests and respond to events in browser.

To the user, an IIS application appears to be made up of series of HTML pages and to the developer IIS is made up of a special type of object called Webclass, that in turn contains a series of resources called webitems. Here webclass is the central functional unit of the application, processing data from the browser and sending information to the users.

What’s new in IIS 7.5 ?

IIS 7.0 and ISS 7.5 are together known as IIS7. However, IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include several new features which are not found in IIS7.0, Few features are:

a. IIS 7.5 includes configuration logging and tracing

b. IIS 7.5 includes the Best Practice Analyzer, an automated tool for helping to ensure compliance with security best practice.