Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5

Getting Started
Features
Customer Perspectives
Technical Resources
Community Resources

Introducing IIS 7.5

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 is part of Windows Server 2008 R2, and provides a security-enhanced, easy-to-manage Web platform for developing and reliably hosting Web applications and Web services that enable organizations to deliver rich, Web-based experiences. Get started now.

Learn more about IIS and Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2, with Internet Information Services 7.5 (IIS 7.5), provides a security-enhanced, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting Web applications and services. More than just a Web server, IIS 7.5 is a major enhancement to the Windows Web platform and plays a central role in unifying Microsoft Web platform technologies—ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation Web services, and Windows SharePoint Services.

More Control	More Choice	More Reliable	More Secure
More Control	More Choice	More Reliable	More Secure

Customer Perspectives
and Case Studies

How can Microsoft products and services help your business succeed? Case studies provide the proof points you need to plan and deploy effective IIS 7.5 solutions. Learn from similar organizations in your industry, and see why they are choosing IIS to achieve high availability, scalability, and manageability.

Technical Resources

Windows Server 2008 R2 featuring Internet Information Services 7.5 is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences. It offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help achieve lower infrastructure costs on a variety of popular development platforms. With improved reliability and scalability, IT professionals and developers can manage the most demanding Web serving environments, from a single Web server to a large Web farm.

Community Resources

Whether you're considering which product and technologies to use, or need support for solutions you’ve implemented, find the right venue to learn from others like you. Community resources provide powerful options to learn from other IT professionals and developers who have implemented a wide range of solutions based on IIS 7.5. Learn and participate with your peers, as well as the IIS 7.5 development team.

Customer Perspectives and Case Studies

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Learn More with further IIS 7.5 Case Studies

Organizations all over the world like you are now adopting and migrating to IIS 7.5. Learn more about specific industry solutions, see how customers are taking advantage of new features and functionality to advance their IT, and read how companies like yours are becoming more successful with Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Why IIS 7.5?

More Control

Centralized Web Management
Delegated Remote Management
Easy Application Deployment

More Choice

Modular Web Server
Intelligent Media Serving
ASP.NET and PHP Support

More Reliable

Scalable Web Infrastructure
Dynamic Caching and Compression
Powerful Diagnostic Tools

More Secure

Improved Server Protection
Secure Content Publishing
Unauthorized Access Protection

Customer Successes

"With Windows Server 2008 and the Shared Configuration feature of IIS 7.0, we can go from a bare bones box to a running Web server in about one hour—a four-hour savings over Windows Server 2003."

Mike Graves
Senior Windows System Administrator
Adhost

"IIS 7.0 will revolutionize Web hosting, enabling customers to avoid the costs of third-party administration products and the security risks of having to expose DCOM ports to use those products effectively."

Carlos Caneja
Chief Technology Officer
Applied Innovations

"Failed request tracing in Internet Information Services 7.0 makes it a lot easier to see just the requests that we’re interested in, with the status codes and other details that we need to debug the site."

Gregory Storme
System Engineer
Combell

"IIS 7.0 allows us to give customers greater access and control. They can to do more things themselves, get them done faster, and get on with their business."

Derek Curtis
Vice President of Business Operations
CrystalTech Web Hosting

"With IIS 7.0, we can delegate administrative rights to our developers, giving them new capabilities and a level of control they’ve never had before…. This will definitely increase our productivity."

Aaron Andrews
Director, Distributed System Windows Team
Corporate Information Technology Group, The First American Corporation

"For years our customers have been asking us for the ability to remotely manage their own application pools and settings; with IIS 7.0 we can meet that need."

Matthew Ferrari
Infrastructure Manager
HostMySite.com

"Before, we had to have a programmer to create batch files and automate processes. But with IIS 7.0, anyone can do it, which makes management faster and easier."

Dominic Foster
Lead Engineer
MaximumASP

"No replication of the configuration is huge. With IIS 7.0, we can actually manage tens of thousands of sites in a Web farm. That was difficult to do in our old IIS 6.0 environment."

Jonathan Bryce
Founder
Mosso

"The improved diagnostics in IIS 7.0 are the biggest benefit for us. It has been a huge help in tracking down application errors."

BJ Stigall
Senior Staff Systems Administrator
Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline

"With IIS 7.0, we can customize servers for a particular role, which means that we can create a footprint that best serves specific content—no more, no less."

Jonathan Jespersen
Senior System Support Specialist, Web Operations
Quixtar

"We’re no longer bound to just HTTP protocol so we can run our services over TCP/IP and other protocols that are much quicker than HTTP. We also have centralized management for all of our services in IIS 7.0, which means we can do single-point deployment and we don’t have to spend time coding services that IIS 7.0 gives us right out of the box."

Jeff McGeath
CTO, Accent on Integration
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"With Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services, we can shorten the deployment period, offer new management capabilities, and attract innovative new customers."

Sander de Goede
System Administrator
XS4ALL

Technologies

Core Services

What's New in R2
Active Directory
BranchCache
Branch Office
Core Infrastructure
DirectAccess
Failover Clustering
File and Print Solutions
File Classification Infrastructure
High Availability
Windows Storage Server

Management

Server Management

Security

Network Access Protection
Security and Policy Enforcement

Virtualization

Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Services)
Virtualization with Hyper-V

Web Platform

AppFabric
Internet Information Services