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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 other applications in other pools. They also help with security by restricting an applications access to resources in another pool. Additionally, application pools can be used to improve a sites overall performance if resource intensive applications are contained so they don't affect other applications.
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IIS 7.0 HTTP Request Processing
Here's a simplified diagram outlining the steps IIS takes to process HTTP requests.
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IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page
Here's a look at the options available from the IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page
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IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Hierarchy
Here's a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store: