IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows Server operating systems.
This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a version-specific tag, such as [iis-7], [iis-7.5], etc.
IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows and Windows Server operating systems.
This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a version-specific tag such as:
- iis-10 on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
- iis-8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
- iis-8 on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
- iis-7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
- iis-7 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
- iis-6 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows XP x64 Professional (END-OF-LIFE)
- iis-5 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional (END-OF-LIFE)
It is also recommended that you tag your questions with the appropriate windows-version tags.
IIS 7 and newer versions are built on a modular architecture, plugging in to the kernel-mode HTTP.SYS listener. User-mode Modules can be added or removed individually so that only modules required for specific functionality have to be installed.
IIS includes these module groups:
- HTTP (request-processing pipeline, errors, redirects)
- security
- content
- compression
- caching
- logging and diagnostics
The IIS Manager (INETMGR) is the IIS administrative GUI.
The command-line utility "AppCmd" provides a scriptable interface to the IIS configuration data.
The PowerShell WebAdministration module is included with IIS 7.5+.
The newer PowerShell IISAdministration module is included in IIS 10+. It is the only IIS PS Admin module supported on Nano server at the time of release.
