What is the Role of IIS ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

Visual studio having It own ASP.NET Engine which is capable enough to run Asp.net web application from visual studio. So we just click on Run button to start the application. Now this is the scenarios of local environment. But If we want to host it on server from where all user can access the sites then IIS comes into the picture. IIS provides a redesigned WWW architecture that can help you achieve better performance, reliability, scalability, and security for our Web sites. IIS can support following Protocol HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP Etc. We need to host the site on IIS, when request comes from client it first hits the IIS Server, then the server passed it to ASP.NET worker process to execute. Then the response also passes to client via IIS itself. Note only Hosting of Site we can create our FTP Server, SMTP Server using IIS itself. There are different version of IIS available like 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 etc

What are the different version on IIS that you have worked on ?
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Before answering this question you need to know what are the different IIS version is available in different OS. Below is the list of IIS version with different Operating system. Windows Server 2008 - Windows Vista - Home Premium/ Ultimate - IIS 7.0 Windows Server 2003 - IIS 6.0 Windows XP Professional - IIS 5.1 Now based on your working experience you can say that you have worked on IIS 5.1 and 6.0 or only IIS 7. Etc. Now, the next question that can asked after answering this question is what is the difference between them ? Well I will come with this later.

What is Application Pool in IIS ?

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Before Giving the Definition : you can say like this, Concept of Application pool has from IIS 6.0 . Application pools are used to separate sets of IIS worker processes that share the same configuration and application boundaries. Application pools used to isolate our web application for better security, reliability, and availability and performance and keep running with out impacting each other . The worker process serves as the process boundary that separates each application pool so that when one worker process or application is having an issue or recycles, other applications or worker processes are not affected. One Application Pool can have multiple worker process Also. Main Point to Remember: 1. Isolation of Different Web Application 2. Individual worker process for different web application 3. More reliably web application 4. Better Performance

What is the Name of Default Application Pool in IIS ?

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Though we can create new application pool IIS with different settings, but IIS having its own default application pool named : DefaultAppPool

What are the different types of Identity available in IIS 6.0 ?

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IIS having three different Identity. 1. Local System 2. Local Services 3. NetworkServices

Name of default Identity of IIS6.0

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Default Identity of IIS 6.0 is NetworkServices . Which is having very minimum rights on your system. The user can only have the read access of the site.

What is Recycling of Application Pool ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

Recycling Application pool means recycle the Worker process (w3wp.exe ) and the memory used for the web application. There are two types of recycling related with Application pool 1. Recycling Worker Process - Predefined Settings 2. Recycling Worker Process - Based on Memory

What are the main layers of IIS Architecture ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

IIS having mainly two layer Kernel Mode and User Mode Below are the subsection of both of them. 1. Kernel Mode o HTTP.SYS 2. User Mode o Web Admin Service o Virtual Directory o Application Pool

What is the Role of Http.Sys in IIS ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

HTTP.SYS is the kernel level components of IIS. All client request comes from client hit the HTTP.Sys of Kernel level. HTTP.SYS then makes a queue for each and every request for each and individual application pool based on the request. Whenever we create any application pool IIS automatically registers the pool with HTTP.SYS to identify the particular during request processing.

What are the different security settings available in IIS ?

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Below are the commonly used IIS Security settings 1 Anonymous

2 Integrated Windows Authentication 3. Basic Authentication 4. Digest Authentication 5. Passport Authentication For Set security permission you need to go to Virtul Directory > Right Click > Properties > Directory Security Click on Edit Button .

What is the default authentication settings for IIS ?

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Anonymous authentication is the default authentication mode for any site that is hosted on IIS, and it runs under the "IUSR_[ServerName]" account.

What is web garden ?

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By default Each Application Pool runs with a Single Worker Process (W3Wp.exe). We can assign multiple Worker Process With a Single Application Pool. An Application Poll with multiple Worker process called Web Gardens. Each Worker Process Should have there own Thread and Own Memory space. Generally its not recommended to use InProc Session mode while we are using Web Garden.

Where session data stores in case of "In-Proc" Session mode ?

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Session data store inside process memory of worker process [ w3wp.exe ] .

How we can create an web garden ?

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For creating web graden we need to go to Application Pool, then Right Click on Application Pool > Properties > Goto Performance Tab In Web Garden Section, increase the number of worker process. By default it is 1.

How we can debug a web application which is hosted on IIS ?

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We can easily debug any web application that are hosted on IIS by using Attaching of Worker Process. From Visual Studio IDE > Tools > Attach To Process Select the particular Process, then start debugging.
How we can open IIS Configuration manager ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Just simply Run >inetmgr Or we can open it from control panel > Administrative tools. How we can create a Virtual Directory on IIS ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana Open IIS Configuration Manager First of all Right Click on Default web sites > New > Virtual Directory . Browse the Physical Path. Set the properites. Click on OK What are the permission settings are available for Virtual Directory ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Below are the list of permission that can be set during virtaul directory creation 1. Read 2. Run Scripts 3. Execute: 4. Write: 5. Browse What is the folder location for Virtual Directory ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana <Drive>:\inetpub\wwwroot What is the use of Enable Pinging Properties for Application Pool ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana IIS should periodically monitor the health of a worker process [ Idle or not , Time for recycle or not, All Worker process are running properly or not ] . Pining means, Activation Process monitor Worker process performance, health, idle time etc. By default it sets to 30s . Does One Web Application can have multiple Application Pool ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana No. Every Web Application should have one Application Pool. Bydefault it is "DefaultAppPool ". Which version of IIS is available in Windows Server 2008 ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana IIS 7.0 . Even Vista Home Premium and Ultimate edition is also having IIS 7.0

How we can save an Application Pool Settings? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Application Pool Settings can be save as "XML" Format. Right Click on Application Pool > All Task > Save Configuration to a File . This will save all the settings of Application Pool as an XML file.We can make it password protected also. Which Tool is used for Remote IIS Debugging ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Tools is : msvsmon.exe This is located at : Install path\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86

What are the different authentication mode available for IIS Remote Debugging ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana For IIS Remote Debugging msvsmon supported two authentication mode 1. Windows Authentication 2. No-Authentication How can we get the list of worker process running in IIS along with the Application pool name ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana By running iisapp.vbs script from command Prompt. Below are the steps : 1. Start > Run > Cmd 2. Go To Windows > System32 3. Run cscript iisapp.vbs If there are multiple worker process running on IIS, then how can you attach a particular worker process for application ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Well, If there are multiple worker process running in IIS, it means I have to know the name of my application pool. Then I can run cscript iisapi.vbs script to find out the process ID and Application Pool name . Based on the process Id for particular application I have to attache the process from Visual studio IDE. Why do we need to IIS Remote Debugging ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana There are following reasons where we can use remote debugging 1. Your development server does not have IIS installed. 2. Development server and Build/Released/Hosting Server is different 3. Multiple user want to debug simultaneously. Does IIS allows multiple user to Remote debug simultaneously ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Yes. This is one of the great features of msvsmon.exe . Each instance of the remote debugger has a unique server name.we can give an instance of the remote debugger any server name. Now multiple user can able to access the server instance. What is the use of aspnet_regiis -i command ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana This is used automatically register the .NET Framework with your IIS. Can we have multiple web sites on IIS ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Yes. IIS Can have multiple web sites and Each and every web sites can have multiple virtual Directory. Note : Here web sites means the Root Node. Where is the default location for IIS Log files ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Its

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 What is ISAPI Filter ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana This is one of the more important question for experienced guys. Please read this in details. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524610.aspx What are the major innovation in IIS 7.0 ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Below are the Major Innovation in IIS 7.0 Components are designed as module and there are major change in administration settings. FYI : You can find out many of them, just go thorugh Microsoft IIS web site. What is the Role of Windows Activation Process in IIS ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana WAP is the Controller of Worker process under a Application Pool. Windows Activation Process which is managed by the worker process by starting, stopping and recycling the application pool. When to start, stop and Recycle should be defined on Application Pool Settings. Activation Process is also responsible for Health Monitor of Application Pool during runtime. FYI : Health monitoring setting can be easily found in Properties of Application Pool. What are the different type of application pool available in IIS 7.0 ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana IIS 7.0 having two types of application pool. 1. DefaultAppPool (Integrated) 2. ClassicAppPool Which is not an Identity of Application Pool ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer.

Which application pool having maximum privilege on the server ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer. What is name of default application pool in IIS ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer. What are the worker process for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana For IIS 5.1 > aspnet_wp.exe For IIS 6.0 > w3wp.exe

Name of the tool which is used for remote debugging of IIS Posted by: Abhijit Jana NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer. What is Web Farm ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana This is one of the most question in IIS. And along with that interviewer can as what is the different between Web farm and Web Garden ? When we hosted our web Application on multiple web server under a load balancer call the Web Farm. This is generally used for heavy load web application where there are many user request at a time. So When Web Application is hosted on Different IIS Server over a load balancer, Load balancer is responsible for distribute the load on different server. Please have a look into this : http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article713-difference-between-web-farm-and-web-garden.aspx What is the default Identity of an Application Pool ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana NetworkServices How can we set the default page for any web application ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana We can set the default page for a web site from the Virtual Directory Setting. How To : IIS Manager > Virtual Directory > Right Click > Properties > GoTo Document Tab. How we can set the Idle Time out of an worker process ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana We can set the Idle time out for an worker process from Application Pool Properties. In Performance Tab of Application pool, we can set the Idle Time out of the worker process. This means worker process will shut down after that given time period if it stay idle. And will again wake up again if a new request comes. Is there any alternative way to host site on IIS rather than opening IIS Manager ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Yes, We can directly host any site from the physical location of directory itself. Right Click on Physical Folder > Properties > Web Sharing There you need to select > "Share This Folder" Option Button. Then it will ask for alias name and other setting. Then Click on OK. To Validate : Run > Inetmgr > Check there should an virtual directory with the same "Alias" name that you have given. If there are already one Virtual directory exist it will showing you the error message while you providing the "Alias" name. Can we create one Application Pool From Another Application Pool ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana Yes. We can. While creating Application Application Pool From IIS, there should have two option available first one is for Default Setting and Another is for Existing Setting as template. We can select the second one and from the drop down listed below we can select any on the Application Pool as Template,. What are the main components of SVCHost.exe ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana Main components for SVCHost.exe are WWW Publishing Service (W3SVC) and Windows Activation Porcess (WAP) . W3SVC is the mediator of HTTP.SYS and Windows Activation Process. Windows Activation Process maintain the worker processes. What are the different way that we can hosted site on IIS ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana We can hosted site on IIS either creating Virtual Directory through IIS manager or Using Folder Web Sharing . Apart from that Visual studio provide some inbuilt features to host the site on IIS like using Publishing the web site , Using Copy web Tool or Creating Virtual directory during the creating the project by choosing Location as HTTP How does IIS process an ASP.net request ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana When client request for an aspx pages, request comes to kernel level off IIS means to HTTP.SYS . HTTP.SYS receives the request and based on the application pool name [ Which is already registred with the HTTP.SYS ] it send the request to worker process. Windows Activation process works as mediator of them. w3wp.exe loads "aspnet_isapi.dll" files to start the HTTPRuntime . HTTPRuntime creates HTTPApplication objects and all request are passed through HTTPModule and finally reached to HttpHandler . This is the request pipeline. After end of Request pipeline ASP.NET Page lifecycle starts. For more Information : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/aspnetrequestarchitecture.aspx From where we can set the Session Time Out in IIS ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana We can set the Session time out settings from the Virtual Directory for that site. Right Click on Virtual Directory > Properties > Click on "Configuration" Button Goto the "Option" Tab. There in Enable Session State Section you can configure the Session Timeout . What are the different "Execution Permission" available for IIS for an virtual directory ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana There are three Execution Permission available. 1. None 2. Scripts Only 3. Scripts and Executable

From where you can change the ASP.NET Version in IIS ? Posted by: Abhijit Jana This can be change from Virtual Directory properties. First open Properties of Virtual Directory > GoTo

ASP.NET Version Tab. There we can have change the ASP.NET Version. What is the latest version of IIS released with Windows 7 Posted by: Nishithraj IIS 7.5 What is the default user name of an anonymous login in IIS? Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen In IIS, an anonymous user will be given with a user name of "IUSR_MachineName " How can we take back-ups in IIS Server? Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen Step 1 : In the IIS (inetmgr), right click on the "Computer" icon under "Internet Information Services" . Click "All Tasks" and select "Backup/Restore Configuration". Step 2 : Click on button "Create backup". Give Name for your backup file. If you want encryption enable encryption option and give UserName and Password and then click OK. What is IIS metabase? And In which format IIS stors configurations? Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen IIS metabase is a special databse which is used to maintain the settings and configurations data for IIS. In simple term, it is a configuration base for IIS (Metabase.xml). IIS 5.0 --> Metabse is in Binary. IIS 6.0 & 7.5 --> Metabase is in XML. List of Error & Status codes in IIS 6.0? Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen Status Code Type of Code 100 Series - Informational 200 Series - Success 300 Series - Redirection 400 Series - Client Error 500 Series - Server Error How to recycle application pool from the command prompt in IIS7? Posted by: Prasham 1. Use appcmd.exe to recycle the application pool from the command prompt. 2. appcmd.exe is the command line tool for IIS7, you will find this tool at following location : %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd 3. To recycle your application pool use the following command: appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:<application pool name> What are the Different steps to be followed to get SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) for our Web Application ? Posted by: Chvrsri . Intially we have to Generate a certificate request from our IIS

. Now we have to request a certificate from the certificate authority(CA) . This CA is an entity which issues Digital Certificates. . After receiving the certificate we have to install that particular certificate on our Web Server using IIS . We have to use Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol(HTTPS) when accessing secure pages in our application. By this way we could make our web page as SSL protected. !!! Which DLL is used to translate XML to SQL in Internet Information Services (IIS) ? Posted by: Chvrsri NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer. What is the purpose of IIS application pools? Posted by: Lokesh76 We use applicaiton pools for isolation purpose. Every application within an application pool used the same worker process. 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 process that services another. In simplest words we use applicaiton pools for ISOLATION purpose. what is Windows Process Activation Service ? Posted by: Sagnikmukh The Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) provides process activation, resource management and health management services for message-activated applications. It manages application pool configuration and the creation and lifetime of worker processes for HTTP and other protocols (net.tcp,net.pipe,net.msmq) Details : http://techprudent.com/the-windows-process-activation-service/ and MSDN : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc735229%28WS.10%29.aspx What are the Different Authentication Methods(Using Windows Authentication) which are provided by IIS ? Posted by: Chvrsri Generally IIS provides four different kinds of Authentication Methods they are : Anonymous Method If we select this authentication, IIS doesn't perform any authentication so that any one can access the application. Basic Method If we select this method, the user who access the application should provide windows username and password to access the application. Although this is sent through a network by transmitting direct text so it it very insecure. Digest Method This method is almost equal to Basic method but the difference is the password is hashed before it is transmitted through out a network.

Windows Integrated Method In this the application uses the Kerberos protocol to validate(Authenticate) the user. This uses a Secret key cryptography which provides strign authentication for Client/Server applications. How can we check whether IIS is being installed in my system or not? Posted by: Chvrsri To verify if IIS is installed or not we need to go to Add or Remove Programs utility in the Control panel and click on the Add/Remove Windows Components in the side menu. There we must locate an item called "Internet Information Services (IIS)". If this is checked, IIS should be installed. So that you can have your IIS installed in your system if it is not installed

What is IIS? IIS Manager is a graphical interface for configuring your application pools or your Web, FTP, SMTP, or NNTP sites. With IIS Manager, you can configure IIS security, performance, and reliability features. You can add or delete sites; start, stop, and pause sites; back up and restore server configurations; and create virtual directories for better content management, to name only a few of the administrative capabilities. In previous releases of IIS, this tool was called the Internet Service Manager. What is the full form of IIS? Internet Information Server. What is a Web service extension and how do I use the Web Service Extensions folder? (IIS 6.0) The Web Service Extensions folder is the user interface for the new IIS 6.0 lockdown feature. This feature is a manifest of ISAPI extensions and CGIs with user-specified permissions, meaning, administrators must set the permissions to allow specific ISAPIs and CGIs to run on your server. Administrators can also specify the names of ISAPIs or CGIs that are forbidden to run on your server. Before loading an ISAPI extension .dll file or CGI .exe file, IIS checks this manifest for the permissions on the file. If the file is permitted to run, then the request proceeds normally. If the file is not permitted to run, then IIS returns a 404.2 error response to the client machine. The HTML page for a 404.2 error looks like a standard 404 error page, so the client machine processes the request as though the file did not exist. IIS logs the 404.2 error, which administrators can view to assess problems or potential threats against the server. How do I publish documents or Web pages? (IIS 6.0) 1.Move your files to the \Inetpub\Wwwroot directory. 2.Type http://servername/filename in the address bar of your Internet browser to see your published files. How do I create a virtual directory on a Web or FTP site? (IIS 6.0) You can use IIS Manager to create virtual directories on your Web site. How do I create a Web site? When you install IIS on a computer running a member of the Windows Server 2003 family, a default Web site is set up for you. You can publish your content here immediately. How do I create multiple Web sites? To create multiple Web sites, you must first ensure that each site has unique identification. To accomplish this, you need to contact your network administrator to either obtain multiple IP addresses or to assign multiple host header names. How do I stop and restart Internet services? By using the "IISRESET" command Can I change the name of my Web site and also redirect requests for the old site name to the new one? You can configure your Web site to respond to both the old name and the new name, provided your network correctly routes both requests to your computer. This way, visitors can still reach your site by using the old name, and will be informed of the new name. How can I confirm that a server certificate is attached to a Web site? 1.In IIS Manager, right-click the Web site, and click Properties. 2.Click the Directory Security tab. 3.Under Secure communications, if the View Certificate button is activated, there is a certificate attached to the Web site. If the button is not activated, you must attach a server certificate to the site to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) features. Can I attach more than one server certificate to a Web site? No. Each Web site can have only one server certificate attached to it. Can I attach the same server certificate to more than one site? Yes. A server certificate can be attached to as many Web sites as needed. Can I attach a server certificate to an FTP site? No. FTP sites do not support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) features. Should I create a backup copy of my server certificate? Yes. Your server certificate is a valuable investment, and is the key to your server's Secure Sockets Layer features. To create a backup copy of your server certificate, copy the entire certificate on to a floppy disk and store it in a safe place. Does ASP debugging work in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode? Yes, when you configure Launch and Access permissions to enable ASP debugging in worker process isolation mode for Script Debugger and Visual InterDev. What are the new features in IIS7? 1. Simple, Configurable Command Line Setup Install only the IIS components needed to run your site Example: start /w pkgmgr /l:log.etw /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IISCommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IISHttpErrors;IIS-HttpRedirect;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;IISASP;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-ServerSideIncludes;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IISHttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-Security;IIS-

ClientCertificateMappingAuthentication;IIS-IISCertificateMappingAuthentication;IISRequestFiltering;IIS-IPSecurity;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IISHttpCompressionDynamic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IISManagementScriptingTools;IIS-ManagementService;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;IISMetabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;IIS-LegacyScripts;IIS-LegacySnapIn;WASWindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI 2. Great Compatibility Story Most (99%+) ASP and ASP.NET applications just worked. One application encountered breaking change Handful of applications required config migration to run in Integrated (We have about 260 applications running on www.microsoft.com as defined by IIS, there are thousands of pages of code that could have broken but didnt.) Integrated Pipeline is the new unified request processing pipeline. Benefits include: Allowing services provided by both native and managed modules to apply to all requests, regardless of handler. For example, managed Forms Authentication can be used for all content, including ASP pages, CGIs, and static files. Empowering ASP.NET components to provide functionality that was previously unavailable to them due to their placement in the server pipeline. For example, a managed module providing request rewriting functionality can rewrite the request prior to any server processing, including authentication, takes place. A single place to implement, configure, monitor and support server features. For example, single module and handler mapping configuration, single custom errors configuration, single url authorization configuration. Classic ASP mode allows for easy app migration ASP.NET Setup provides a Classic .NET AppPool For more information on check out the article ASP.Net Integration With IIS7 Use AppCmd to migrate apps to Integrated mode %windir %\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD.EXE migrate config <application path> For more information about AppCmd.exe see Getting Started With AppCmd.exe IIS 6.0 Metabase compatibility layer Allows you the run old ADSI scripts IIS6.0 Metabase Compatibility module must be installed 3. No More Metabase! Clean clear-text schema IIS settings stored in XML configuration file (applicationHost.config) Metabase exists for SMTP/NNTP/FTP only Site-wide changes made easily Update central applicationHost.config and copy to all web servers Replaces our bulky ADSI based script solution for metabase changes Microsoft.com considerations Careful copying to production servers under load: (Know Thy Environment! When you push out a new applicationHost.config those affected worker process need to reload the new configuration. It comes down to the scope of the change. For example, if you are making a global change that that affectes all the worker processes, and you are heavily dependent on caching then you could cause some grief in your environment as those new configurations are reloaded by the worker processes.) 4. Centralized Configuration applicationHost.config stored on UNC share Allows us to copy to two (maybe four) servers rather than 80 Potential gotcha - managing password changes for account used to connect to config store (This is because that currently you cannot use the UNC share that is running under the Network service, which we use heavily. It currently requires a domain account, which our security policy mandates a periodic password change.) 5. Delegated Configuration Admin can now delegate IIS settings to application owner Settings defined in web.config file in application directory Example of setting to delegate include: System.webServer section of applicationHost.config Caching, defaultDocument, httpErrors, security 6. AppCmd and Other New Management Options Managing via the UI New modular, task-based look and feel Moving away from the right-click/properties paradigm Managing via the Command Line AppCmd Command line utility which replaces adsutil.vbs, iisapp.vbs, and others Allows command line management of sites, applications, vdirs, apppools, modules, tracing, and more Powershell IIS community creating IIS-specific Powershell cmdlets MSCOM Considerations AppCmd limitations no remote No IIS provider for Powershell 7. Failed Request Tracing Buffers the trace events for requests and flushes them to disk if they meet your failure criteria Captures trace data while youre sleeping Very little perf impact when targeting failing requests Quick test: Enabling tracing for all file extensions and errors results in approx 5% fewer requests/sec at full stress load (please dont do this in production) View Currently Executing Requests via AppCmd appcmd list requests (for all request) appcmd list requests /apppool.name:DefaultAppPool REQUEST "3e00000080012675" (url:GET /casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201269, time:2954 msec, client:127.0.0.1) New Task Scheduler Trigger tasks on events 8. Request Filtering No more URLScan settings in applicationHost.config Gotcha for Microsoft.com: If filename includes + then allowDoubleEscaping must be set to true Allow or disallow specific file extensions and verbs DenyURLSequences RequestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="1000000 maxUrl="260 maxQueryString="2048" 9. UNC Content Simplified content synchronization Reduced H/W footprint (potentially less cost) Common industry pain point 10. Output Caching of Dynamic Content Fewer off-box calls to backend dependencies Significant performance gains Simple WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool) Stress Test against www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Not appropriate for all applications (e.g. not effective for those with very personalized output)

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What is the Name of Default Application Pool in IIS ? What are the different types of Identity available in IIS 6.0 ? Name of default Identity of IIS6.0 What is Recycling of Application Pool ? What are the main layers of IIS Architecture ? What is the Role of Http.Sys in IIS ? What are the different security settings available in IIS ? What is the default authentication settings for IIS ? What is web garden ? Where session data stores in case of &quot;In-Proc&quot; Session mode ? How we can create an web garden ? How we can debug a web application which is hosted on IIS ? How we can open IIS Configuration manager ? How we can create a Virtual Directory on IIS ? What are the permission settings are available for Virtual Directory ? What is the folder location for Virtual Directory ? What is the use of Enable Pinging Properties for Application Pool ? Does One Web Application can have multiple Application Pool ? Which version of IIS is available in Windows Server 2008 ? How we can save an Application Pool Settings? Which Tool is used for Remote IIS Debugging ? What are the different authentication mode available for IIS Remote Debugging ? How can we get the list of worker process running in IIS along with the Application pool name ? If there are multiple worker process running on IIS, then how can you attach a particular worker process for application ? Why do we need to IIS Remote Debugging ? Does IIS allows multiple user to Remote debug simultaneously ? What is the use of aspnet_regiis -i command ? Can we have multiple web sites on IIS ? Where is the default location for IIS Log files ? What is ISAPI Filter ? What are the major innovation in IIS 7.0 ? What is the Role of Windows Activation Process in IIS ? What are the different type of application pool available in IIS 7.0 ? Which is not an Identity of Application Pool ? Which application pool having maximum privilege on the server ? What is name of default application pool in IIS ? What are the worker process for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 ? Name of the tool which is used for remote debugging of IIS What is Web Farm ? What is the default Identity of an Application Pool ? How can we set the default page for any web application ? How we can set the Idle Time out of an worker process ? Is there any alternative way to host site on IIS rather than opening IIS Manager ? Can we create one Application Pool From Another Application Pool ? What are the main components of SVCHost.exe ? What are the different way that we can hosted site on IIS ? How does IIS process an ASP.net request ? From where we can set the Session Time Out in IIS ? What are the different &quot;Execution Permission&quot; available for IIS for an virtual directory ? From where you can change the ASP.NET Version in IIS ? What is the latest version of IIS released with Windows 7 What is the default user name of an anonymous login in IIS? How can we take back-ups in IIS Server? What is IIS metabase? And In which format IIS stors configurations? List of Error &amp; Status codes in IIS 6.0? How to recycle application pool from the command prompt in IIS7? What are the Different steps to be followed to get SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) for our Web Application ? Which DLL is used to translate XML to SQL in Internet Information Services (IIS) ? What is the purpose of IIS application pools? what is Windows Process Activation Service ?