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IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows Server operating systems. This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a *version-specific* tag, such as [iis-7], [iis-7.5], etc.

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows and Windows Server operating systems.

This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a version-specific tag such as:

  • on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
  • on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
  • on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
  • on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  • on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
  • on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows XP x64 Professional (END-OF-LIFE)
  • on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional (END-OF-LIFE)

It is also recommended that you tag your questions with the appropriate windows-version tags.

IIS 7 and newer versions are built on a modular architecture, plugging in to the kernel-mode HTTP.SYS listener. User-mode Modules can be added or removed individually so that only modules required for specific functionality have to be installed.

IIS includes these module groups:

  • HTTP (request-processing pipeline, errors, redirects)
  • security
  • content
  • compression
  • caching
  • logging and diagnostics

The IIS Manager (INETMGR) is the IIS administrative GUI.

The command-line utility "AppCmd" provides a scriptable interface to the IIS configuration data.

The PowerShell WebAdministration module is included with IIS 7.5+.

The newer PowerShell IISAdministration module is included in IIS 10+. It is the only IIS PS Admin module supported on Nano server at the time of release.

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IIS/AppCmd - create new users remotely

Is there a way to add new users to IIS remotely? I want to create new users from another web site located on another server so that I can log on to the server with these accounts to add and edit (new) web sites. Ideally I want to do this without…
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Blocking requests from specific IPs using IIS Rewrite module

I'm trying to block a range of IP that is sending tons of spam to my blog. I can't use the solution described here because it's a shared hosting and I can't change anything to the server configuration. I only have access to a few options in Remote…
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Website error: A generic error occurred in GDI+

The vendor one of our application has told me to call Microsoft for support on an error we are getting on their website. I'm hoping someone on here can assist. They have a feature that pulls a report and creates a PDF of users paycheck stubs. This…
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Using WSUS Admin Console from outside domain

Environment: I have a workstation on our primary domain. We have a primary WSUS Server that is the upstream server of 8 different testing domains. The Primary WSUS server is not part of any domain. Routing is configured between my workstation and…
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Is it possible to install a wildcard SSL certificate on a server with one site which has multiple aliases (not sub-domains)

I run a small website (www.exampleurl.com) and want to be able to offer clients the ability to have a personalised URL (clientname.exampleurl.com). The important factor here is that each instance of a personalised URL is just an alias to the…
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Can I use iptables on my Varnish server to forward HTTPS traffic to a specific server?

We use Varnish as our front-end web cache and load balancer, so we have a Linux server in our development environment, running Varnish with some basic caching and load-balancing rules across a pair of Windows 2008 IIS web servers. We have a wildcard…
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IIS w3c logfile order of the different fields?

I have a W3C logfile of IIS access log. I can't find out what the numbers mean: 2012-10-25 19:18:00 10.234.150.43 GET /status.aspx - 8080 - 10.0.0.1 - 200 0 0 0 Of course some of the fields are clear, but what do the three zero's at the end stand…
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IIS Application Request Routing(Monitoring and management) Powershell

I am working with iis arr powershell... In my iis i have one web farm and in that i have two servers "server1" & "server2"...... My task is Make server1 unavailable gracefully restart server1 iis make available server1... Make server2 unavailable…
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Http header 304 and caching?

Our company uses these settings( don't ask me why) - for every request they want a new request from server. this is an intranet system which uses only IE. They defined it in : We also have windows authentication NTLM in the iis7. I have 2…
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Tomcat 7 Clustering using IIS webserver

I successfully configured Apche httpd server for load balancing and clustering od multiple tomcat instances on same machine. Now I need to use IIS web server instead of Apache server. How can I proceed? How will I configure IIS server for tomcat…
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require client certificates in IIS without requiring SSL

In IIS 7, I've created an https binding for a site, and I'd like to require client certificates for https and still keep my http endpoint. That is to say, I'd like to require client certificates for my https endpoint without requiring SSL across the…
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Application Request Routing (ARR) - Single Server Reverse Proxy(ish) Setup

I have 1 webserver that has two .NET apps running on it. These are set up on the server as app1.mydomain.com and app2.mydomain.com. I would like to be able to take any request going to app1.mydomain.com/subfolder and rewrite it to…
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Email forwarding over windows and iis7

I am trying to make a mail piping sytem work and I am having trouble as I am not used to working with IIS7 over Windows. The official documentation talks about how to do it with Cpanel and X3 skin, but I have no idea if this can be done on IIS7.
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Allow incoming connections on Windows Server 2008 R2

Good day people. First, im new to Windows Server. I've always used Linux/Apache combo, but, my client has and AWS EC2 Windows Server 2008 R2 instance and he wants everything in there. Im working with IIS and PHP enabled as Fast-CGI and everything is…
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How do I run multiple MVC apps within a subdomain on IIS7?

Hello and thanks for looking. Background I am currently wrapping up a development contract and the client would like for me to push a build of the application to their IIS 7-based server in which they would like to run multiple MVC apps. One of the…
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