Deploy and manage Web sites and applications across large farms
of Web servers from a central place.
IIS7 makes it simple to centrally deploy and manage configuration and content
across a farm of Web servers.
Share Configuration and Content
An innovative new feature called
Shared
Configuration enables Administrators to place IIS configuration on a shared
volume (network file share or shared disk) and point multiple Web servers at
that single configuration file. Web content can also be shared on a network
volume across multiple servers, enabling updates of both configuration and
content to automatically apply to all Web connected to the share. All of the
IIS configuration and management tools,
from the command line tool AppCmd.exe to the admin tool IIS Manager, work
seamlessly against IIS configuration whether local or shared.
Package, Archive, Migrate and Synchronize
IIS7 also supports the new
Microsoft Web
Deployment Tool, which provides support for synchronizing not only
configuration and content, but all types of Web application dependencies
including GAC assemblies, COM dlls, SQL databases, SSL certificates, and much
more.
The Microsoft Web Deployment Tool is a tool for simplifying the deployment,
management and migration of Web applications, sites and even entire servers.
Developers can package a Web site, automatically including content,
configuration, certificates and databases. These packages can be directly
deployed to a server or packaged and shared with others. IT Professionals can
enable developers to deploy these packages to a server and delegate access to
non-admins. IT Professionals can also use the tool in their infrastructure to
synchronize servers easily on both IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0, or even to accomplish a
migration from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0.
Here are just a few of the features that the tool enables:
- Create a package that contains content, configuration and SQL databases
for deployment or sharing with others.
- Use the package as a way to version your application or create backups.
- Enable non-administrators to deploy packages and granularly control
their access.
- Synchronize or migrate both sites and servers running IIS 6.0 and IIS
7.0.