Month: February 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 […]