Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager

README and Installation Notes

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Features
• Installation Notes
  • Requirements
  • Known Issues
• Starting Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager
• Miscellaneous Notes

Overview

Microsoft has created a completely new administration UI for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 which ships with Windows Server 2008. The administration UI you just installed is a version of the Windows Server 2008 which will allow you to remotely manage IIS 7.0 from Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

Note: The administration UI is only for administering Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 from Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

Features

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager is an administration UI that provides end users and administrators with a way to remotely manage IIS 7 servers from Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. A server administrator can perform almost any IIS task that they could if they were sitting at the actual server machine and site/application owners can modify and view settings that have been delegated to them by the server administrator.

Features:

• Remotely manage IIS 7 from Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
• Connect directly to a Server or to an individual site or application.
• View your remote site/application content directly from within the tool.
• Installs even when you don’t have IIS 7 on the local machine.
• Allows multiple simultaneous connections to servers, sites and applications.

Benefits:

• Manage IIS 7 servers remotely.
• Allows site/application owners to connect to and manger their content directly – no longer having to call the server admin.
• Familiar and easy to use administration tool - same functionality as the Windows Server 2008 administration tool.
• Standalone install – no need to install the full IIS server on your local machine in order to manage a remote machine.
• Easily manage multiple servers, sites and applications.

Installation Notes

Requirements

The following prerequisites must be fulfilled in order to install the new Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager:

• You must have the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or greater installed.
• If you are installing on Windows Vista:
  • You must have Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta installed
  • You must have the Internet Information Services 7.0 Management Console installed (Click here to see how to install)
• If you are installing on Windows XP:
  • You must have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed
• If you are installing on Windows Server 2003:
  • You must have Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 installed.

Known Issues

The following issues are known for this release:

• After opening the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager the Start Page will be displayed. In the "Connection tasks" section of the start page there is a link called "Connect to localhost". Clicking on this link on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 will cause a "Failed to connect" error to appear.
• After opening the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager the local server connection node will appear on the treeview. Clicking on this node on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 will cause a "Failed to connect" error to appear.

Installation issues:

• The 32 bit version of Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager will not function correctly on 64 bit version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. You should ensure that you install the 64 bit version Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager on 64 bit operating systems.

Starting Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

After installation you can start the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager by clicking on the Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager shortcut in the Programs (or All Programs) section of the Start menu.

Windows Vista

After installation on simply start the existing IIS Management Console as you normally do. For example, you can start the IIS Management Console by clicking on Start and typing "inetmgr.exe" into the Search box and then pressing enter.

Miscellaneous Notes

Installing the Management Console on Windows Vista

To install the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Management Console on Windows Vista simply follow the steps below:

1. Click on the Windows Start button to display the start menu
2. Type "optionalfeatures.exe" into the search box and press enter.
   (If you are prompted by "User Account Control" click on "Continue")
3. When the Windows Features dialog is finished loading expand the "Internet Information Services" node.
4. Next, expand the "Web Management Tools" node.
5. To install the IIS Management Console you need to check the checkbox beside "IIS Management Console" and click on OK.
   If the checkbox is already checked, the Management Console is already installed.

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