Day: February 2, 2012

When you run IIS 6.0 in worker process isolation mode, you can separate different Web applications and Web sites into groups known as application pools. An application pool is a group of one or more URLs that are served by a worker process or set of worker processes. Any Web directory or virtual directory can be assigned to an application pool. Every application within an application pool shares the same worker process. Because each worker process operates as a separate instance of the worker process executable, W3wp.exe, the worker process that services one application pool is separated from the worker […]

If you use a database to store data for your applications, you can create a connection string in IIS to store the information that an application uses to connect to the database. Note Adding a configuration setting adds the setting at the local level and to any child levels that inherit the setting. Prerequisites For information about the levels at which you can perform this procedure, and the modules, handlers, and permissions that are required to perform this procedure, see Database Connection Strings Feature Requirements (IIS 7). Exceptions to feature requirements None To create a database connection string You can […]

  IIS is built on an open and modular architecture that allows you customize and add new features through free IIS Extensions. We are constantly adding new features to IIS to help you optimize your website for search, serve media to multiple platforms and devices, deploy web applications, route URL requests and more! All FTP Publishing Service 7.5 March 18, 2009 The FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 allows Web content creators to publish content more easily and securely to IIS 7.0 Web servers using modern Internet publishing standards. New features like SSL-based authentication and data transfer protect sensitive data […]