Internet Information Server (IIS) is a World Wide Web server, a Gopher server and an FTP server all rolled into one. IIS means that you can publish WWW pages and extend into the realm of ASP (Active Server Pages) whereby JAVA or VBscript (server side scripts) can generate the pages on the fly. IIS has fun things like application development environment (FrontPage), integrated full-text searching (Index Server), multimedia streaming (NetShow), and site management extensions.
IIS 7.0 represents a major step forward in web services, and there’s plenty for everyone to get excited about, from system admins to web developers. If you’ve got Windows Vista you can start working with IIS 7.0 right now, and it’s also incorporated into Windows Server 2008. The biggest change made in IIS 7.0 was the modular framework architecture. Another is that IIS moved to a file-based configuration system. It gives a lot more flexibility to developers and IT pros. The UI is extensible as well. Presumably that also means that if you have someone who is developing their own extensions and their own modules, it makes it a lot easier if things do go wrong with configs. With IIS 7.0, you can Manage whole Web farms from one place. Share management workload with site owners. Save time by automating more tasks and easily troubleshoot errant Web sites and applications, eliminating hours of potential downtime. To know more about the IIS, please refer to: www.iis.net -Microsoft's Official IIS site.
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Yash
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6:58 PM on July 31, 2008