http://blogs.iis.net/mvolo/archive/2007/07/21/anatomy-of-an-iis7-configuration-path.aspxIf you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS metabase paths. You know, the ones that look like LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT . These metabase paths serve as a mechanism to identify a part of the IIS website hierarchyenCommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)