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Introducing Windows Server 2008 - An excerpt from chapter 11, "Internet Information Services 7.0"
09.27.2007
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One thing I really like about IIS 7.0 is its new modular architecture. What this means is that instead of IIS being a monolithic entity installed by default with only a few features available for optional installation, IIS 7.0 now has more than 40 separate setup components you can choose from and only a small set of these are installed by default. You can now install only IIS features you actually need on your Web server and leave the remaining features uninstalled. The benefits of doing this are fivefold:

In addition, you can even create your own custom modules and use these to replace existing modules or add new features to your Web server. We'll talk about this later when we discuss the extensibility of the IIS 7.0 platform.

The following graphic shows the IIS 7.0 components available for you to install when you add the Web Server (IIS) role to your Windows Server 2008 machine. These components are called modu

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les, and you can add or remove them from the Web server engine, depending on what you need.

Table 11-1 lists the different modules available in each category and provides a short description of what they do.

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You can install these modules by adding role services and features to the Web Server (IIS) role using Server Manager. (Note that some of these modules cannot be selectively installed or uninstalled unless you uninstall the entire w3svc.) When you add the Web Server (IIS) role to your Windows Server 2008 server, a subset of available role services and features is installed by default (though you can also choose to add role services and features at this time or later).

Excerpted from "Introducing Windows Server 2008" by Mitch Tulloch with the Microsoft Windows Server Team . Reprinted by permission of Microsoft Press. All rights reserved. For more information, go to http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/11163.aspx

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