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The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a free tool that makes it easy to get the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform including Internet Information Services (IIS) and Extensions, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.

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Expand Your Web Server

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!

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 while on the network.

WebDAV 7.5

March 18, 2009

The WebDAV Extension for IIS 7.0 enables Web authors to publish content easily and more securely to IIS 7.0 Web servers. Because WebDAV is deeply integrated with IIS 7.0, Web administrators and hosters can manage WebDAV settings using IIS 7.0 management and configuration tools.

Web Deploy

September 24, 2009

Web Deploy (Web Deployment Tool) simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites. Administrators can use command-line scripting with the Web Deployment Tool to synchronize IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 servers or to migrate an IIS 6.0 server to IIS 7.0. Web Deploy also enables administrators and delegated users to use IIS Manager to deploy ASP.NET and PHP applications to an IIS 7.0 server.

Bit Rate Throttling

April 20, 2009

The Bit Rate Throttling module has compelling features for media and data delivery. For many scenarios, this feature will reduce bandwidth costs while increasing per-server capacity for concurrent download connections.

Live Smooth Streaming

October 7, 2009

Live Smooth Streaming enables adaptive streaming of live events to Silverlight clients. Using HTTP to deliver live events takes advantage of the scale of existing HTTP networks and keeps content close to the end user and makes true HD (720p+) a reality for live Web broadcasts as well as drastically increasing live event availability.

Smooth Streaming

October 7, 2009

Smooth Streaming enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks making true HD media experiences (720p+) a reality.

Smooth Streaming Player

January 14, 2010

The IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit allows you to build rich Silverlight user experiences that take full advantage of IIS live and on-demand Smooth Streaming capabilities.

Web Playlists

April 20, 2009

Web Playlists is an IIS 7.0 Extension that provides developers and hosters unprecedented control of how media content is delivered to users. Personalize content, prevent ad skipping, and monetize your assets.

Windows Media Services 2008

February 4, 2008

Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content to clients over the Internet or a private network. Whether you are streaming content to millions of simultaneous users via a CDN, or to thousands of workers in your company, scalability, and affordability you need.

FastCGI for IIS 6

January 18, 2010

The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), which has been supported by IIS since it's first release.

Windows Cache Extension for PHP

November 19, 2009

Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. Once the Windows Cache Extension for PHP is enabled and loaded by the PHP engine, PHP applications can take advantage of the functionality without any code modifications.

URL Rewrite Module

July 16, 2009

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing request URL's before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to express URL rewriting logic that can use regular expressions or wildcards and can make rewriting decisions based on HTTP headers and server variables.

Application Request Routing

November 9, 2009

Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms.

Administration Pack

March 18, 2009

The IIS 7.0 Administration Pack adds to the set of management features that ship with IIS 7.0 to include Administration UI support for ASP.NET authorization, custom errors, FastCGI configuration, Request Filtering and much more.

Advanced Logging

October 7, 2009

Advanced Logging provides rich, flexible data collection and real-time logging capabilities. Log any of the HTTP request/response headers, IIS server variables, and client-side fields to track end-user engagement. Generate logs per IIS application, create custom logging for modules, or implement hierarchical logging. Set up a central log farm to collect client-side metrics.

Application Warm-Up Module for IIS 7.5 - Beta

October 12, 2009

IIS Application Warm-Up for IIS 7.5 enables IT Professionals to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives.

Database Manager

September 24, 2009

IIS Database Manager allows you to easily manage your local and remote databases from within IIS Manager. IIS Database Manager automatically discovers databases based on the Web server or application configuration and also provides the ability to connect to any database on the network.

IIS Manager for Remote Administration

July 14, 2008

The new remote administration tool for IIS 7.0 provides end users and administrators with a way to remotely manage IIS 7.0 servers from Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The tool provides administrators and users with a familiar user interface to manage and configure their servers.

Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

November 13, 2009

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly.

Web Platform Installer

September 24, 2009

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a free tool that makes it simple to download, install and keep up-to-date with the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.

Windows PowerShell Snap-In

February 25, 2009

The Windows PowerShell Snap-In for IIS 7.0 allows Web administrators and hosting providers to easily automate routine and complex IIS 7.0 administration tasks such as creating Web sites, and managing configuration and run-time data using Windows PowerShell.

Dynamic IP Restrictions - Beta

February 16, 2009

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through Brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks.

UrlScan 3.1

November 2, 2008

UrlScan version 3.1 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 will process. UrlScan screens all incoming requests to the server by filtering the requests based on rules that are set by the administrator. Filtering requests helps secure the server by ensuring that only valid requests are processed.