IIS Manager Feature Overview

 

Applies To: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012

IIS Manager is the IIS 8 UI that helps you perform the following tasks:

• Manage IIS and ASP.NET in one tool.

• View health and diagnostic information that includes the ability to view currently running requests in real time.

• Configure user and role authorization for websites and web applications.

• Connect to a web server, site, or application remotely using HTTP.

This document provides an overview of the online help for the features included in the IIS Manager UI.

IIS manager features

The following table shows the features of IIS Manager and their descriptions.

Feature	Description
.NET Authorization Rules	Configure rules for authorizing users to access your websites and applications.
.NET Compilation	Manage ASP.NET application code configuration settings.
.NET Error Pages	Configure HTTP error responses to return when errors occur.
.NET Globalization	Configure .NET Framework globalization settings.
.NET Profile	Manage a list of profile properties that are used to track any custom information your application requires.
.NET Roles	Manage a list of user groups. User groups offer the ability to categorize a set of users and perform security-related operations, such as authorization, on a defined set of users.
.NET Trust Levels	Configure the level of code access security (CAS) that is applied to an application.
.NET Users	Manage a list of user identities for an application.
Application Pools	Manage a list of application pools on a web server.
Application Settings	Manage a list of key/value pairs that are stored in the Web.config file of your application.
Applications	Manage the list of applications in a website.
ASP	Manage a list of classic ASP configuration settings.
Authentication	Configure the authentication methods that clients can use to gain access to your content.
Authorization Rules	Manage the list of Allow or Deny rules that control access to content.
Centralized Certificates	Configure and manage a central certificate store for a server farm.
CGI	Configure Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications on the Web server.
Compression	Provide faster transmission times between IIS and compression-enabled browsers.
Configuration Editor	Manage your configuration files by pulling sections into IIS Manager.
Connection Strings	Manage a list of connection strings generally used by managed code applications.
Default Document	Configure the list of default documents (such as Default.htm).
Directory Browsing	Modify the content settings for browsing a directory on the web server.
Error Pages	Manage a list of custom HTTP error messages.
Failed Request Tracing Rules	Manage a list of tracing rules for failed requests.
FastCGI Settings	Use the Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI) protocol to communicate with external applications.
Feature Delegation	Configure the delegation state of IIS Manager features for sites and applications on your web server.
FTP Authentication	Configure the authentication methods that FTP clients can use to gain access to your content.
FTP Authorization Rules	Manage the list of Allow or Deny rules that control access to content.
FTP Directory Browsing	Modify the content settings for browsing a directory on the FTP server.
FTP Firewall Support	Modify the settings for passive connections when FTP clients are connecting to an FTP server that is located behind a firewall server.
FTP IP Address and Domain Restrictions	Define and manage rules that allow or deny access to content for a specific IP address, a range of IP addresses, or a domain name or names.
FTP Logging	Configure logging features at the server or site level, and to configure logging settings.
FTP Logon Attempt Restrictions	Modify the number of times FTP allows a user to attempt unsuccessfully to log in within a specified time period before denying access to the IP address.
FTP Messages	Modify the settings for messages sent when a user connects to your FTP site.
FTP Network Security	Configure login security parameters and protect your FTP server from network-based attacks.
FTP Request Filtering	Manage the request filtering settings that allow Internet service providers (ISPs) and application service providers to restrict protocol and content behavior.
FTP Sites	Represents the UI components that are available on the IIS Manager Sites page when FTP is installed.
FTP SSL Settings	Manage encryption for both control channel and data channel transmissions between your FTP server and clients.
FTP User Isolation	Manage the user isolation mode and restrict users to their own directories.
Handler Mappings	Manage a list of handlers that process requests for specific file types.
HTTP Redirect	Configure how incoming requests are redirected to a new destination.
HTTP Response Headers	Manage a list of name and value pairs that contain information about a requested page, and to configure common HTTP headers.
IIS Manager	Represents the UI components available at the top level of IIS Manager.
IIS Manager Permissions	Manage IIS Manager users, Windows users, and members of Windows groups that are allowed to connect to a site or an application.
IIS Manager Users	Manage user accounts that can be permitted to connect to sites or applications on the web server.
IP Address and Domain Restrictions	Define and manage rules that allow or deny access to content for a specific IP address, a range of IP addresses, or a domain name or names.
ISAPI and CGI Restrictions	Manage a list of restrictions to ISAPI and CGI programs.
ISAPI Filters	Manage a list of .dll files that change or enhance the functionality provided by IIS.
Logging	Configure how IIS logs requests made to the web server and when new log files are created.
Machine Key	Configure hashing and encryption settings used for application services, such as view state, Forms authentication, membership and roles, and anonymous identification.
Management Service	Configure the management service that enables computer and domain administrators to remotely manage a Web server that uses IIS Manager.
MIME Types	Manage a list of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types so you can identify the types of content that can be served from a Web server to a browser or a mail client.
Modules	Manage a list of native and managed code modules that perform specific tasks in the request-processing pipeline, such as authentication or compression.
Output Caching	Configure output caching settings and to configure rules that control caching of served content.
Pages and Controls	Configure the settings of ASP.NET pages and controls.
Providers	Manage a list of providers.
Request Filtering	Configure filtering rules that let you restrict protocol and content behavior.
Server Certificates	View the names of certificates, the fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) of hosts to which certificates have been issued, and the FQDNs of the servers that issued the certificates.
Session State	Configure the behavior of information maintained across browser sessions.
Shared Configuration	Share IIS configuration files and encryption keys between one or more IIS servers.
Sites	Manage a list of sites on a web server.
SMTP E-mail	Configure delivery of e-mail from applications that use the System.Net.Mail API.
SSL Settings	Manage data encryption of transmissions between your server and clients.
Virtual Directories	Manage a list of virtual directories in an application.
WebDAV Authoring Rules	Manage the list of authoring rules that control access to content.
Worker Processes	Manage a list of worker processes running in application pools on a Web server.