December 2008 Archive on Tom Woolums' Blog

IIS 7.0 Application Pools

Application pools, URLs or groups of URLs served by one set of worker processes, have many benefits. They set boundaries that contain applications an prevent them from affecting applications outside of the pool. So if one application fails it won't affect...

IIS 7.0 HTTP Request Processing

Here's a simplified diagram outlining the steps IIS takes to process HTTP requests.  

IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page

Here's a look at the options available from the IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page

IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Hierarchy

Here's a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store:  

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