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IIS Manager

IIS Manager is a graphical interface for configuring your application pools or your Web, FTP, SMTP, or NNTP sites. You can configure IIS security, performance, and reliability features. You can add or delete sites; start, stop, and pause sites; backup 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.

important Important In order to take a more proactive stance against malicious users and attackers, IIS is not installed on members of the Microsoft Windows .NET Server family by default. Furthermore, when you initially install IIS, the service is installed in a highly secure and "locked" mode. By default, IIS serves only static content. This means that features like ASP, ASP.NET, Server-Side Includes, WebDAV publishing, and FrontPage Server Extensions do not work. You can serve dynamic content and "unlock" these features through the Web Service Extensions node in IIS Manager, or by using the iisext.vbs command-line tool. For more information about the initial state of IIS, see "Enabling and Disabling Dynamic Content" in IIS Help, which is accessible from IIS Manager.

To start IIS Manager

From the Start menu, click All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services.

To start IIS Manager from the Run dialog box

  1. From the Start menu, click Run.
  2. In the Open box, type inetmgr, and click OK.

You can also access IIS from the Computer Management window. Accessing IIS in this way does not give you the range of administration options offered by IIS Manager; however, it does offer quick access and limited management options for your Web sites.

To start IIS Manager from the Computer Management window

  1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and click Manage.
  2. In the console tree, expand the Services and Applications node.
  3. Click Internet Information Services. The names and states of your Web sites appear in the details pane.
  4. In the console tree, expand the Internet Information Services node and any subsequent Web site nodes to see a list of directories and virtual directories for that Web site.
  • For more information on using IIS Manager and administering IIS, see the . "Server Administration Guide" in IIS Help, which is accessible from IIS Manager.