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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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OpenOffice Automation on Windows Server 2008

I'm currently working on an ASP.NET application which is intend to convert .doc, .docx, .xls and .xlsx files to PDF. We are attempting to do this through a third party library which makes use of OpenOffice to achieve this. I have deployed a small…
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Windows Server 2008 web pages timing out unless I RDP into it first

Right now we have Comcast as our ISP and I'm using their router to forward the public IPs through to three servers. The servers have one NIC each and a private and public IP address attached to each NIC. The problem I'm having is whenever there is…
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Correct configuration of a reverse Proxy with IIS 6.0 and IIRF for Hudson

I have an Hudson build working on IIS 6.0 with reverse proxy (IIRF). In general it works but 2 errors are displayed in Hudson in the main configuration page called "Manage Hudson" (only if I connect through the reverse proxy): Your container…
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why does one of my applications keep changin pid?

Hi i got this strange thing happening to me and im to novice to solve it myself. Im doing some test at work and i got this one application pool that keeps changing its PID a couple of times a day, i notied this two days ago when i could not access…
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Find rejected email from relay from my IIS server

I've got an SMTP server running on IIS Windows Server 2003 that sends mail out via another relay - sometimes that mail doesn't arrive. Where can I find out why mail isn't sent past the relay?
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Restoring StaticFileModule in IIS

How do you restore the default handler mappings? I accidentally deleted the StaticFileModule in the DefaultWebSite and now I can't bring it back. Additionally, Reverting to Parent doesn't bring it back.
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IIS Time Zone and daylight saving changes

How can I determine Time Zone setting for IIS. It seems that ever since the daylight savings were applied (+1 hour) the time returned by IIS is 1 hour behind as the +1 was ignored. The time on the server itself is correct, but when the application…
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IIS accessing site without port

I have deployed our company intranet website to IIS 7 server added the following binding info. IP Address: All Unassigned port: 3333 domain name: subdomain_name.domain_name.com Although the site is deploy on port 3333, I want to be able to access…
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Seeing a lot of requests into the web server - for random hostnames not my own

This seems like a phishing attack, and it's a disclosure vulnerability to send 404 response in this case. Unfortunately that's just what IIS does. I would rather these guys not even know my server existed. Edit: Of course, once a TCP connection…
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openssl, IIS, XP and error 403.7

I use IIS 6 on 2003 Server. The website use SSL. I think it works fine: when a user, on XP machine, connect to the site (https://www.my_soc.local), it obtains the first page. My problem: I'd like now users to authenticate to the web site. I've…
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Adding multiple web sites on IIS with single DNS name

I'm trying to add a new web site on an existing IIS v7 which has its default web site installed. My problem is that I have conflict since I can't give: Different host name Different local IP Different port I was asked to try and do the following.…
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IIS Maintenance page for multiple sites

Is it possible to have a single maintenance/holding page for all sites on an IIS server? I have one server with 30 sites on it for example. I want to do some maintenance to the server itself which will require my shutting down the coldfusion service…
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Apps inside different app pools on IIS 7.5

I saw a guy a couple of days ago and he was putting his apps inside different app pools for each app. For example: example.com inside examplePool - .net 4.0 integrated mode example2.com inside example2Pool - .net 4.0 integrated mode example3.com…
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Content Encoding Error on new IIS 7 server with PHP

I recently moved a PHP (Cake framework) development site from an IIS 6 (x86) server to an IIS 7 server (x64). The content is all the same and the URL rewriting works, but on the attempt to display the first page I get this error: Error 330…
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Enabling Details HTTP Errors for a certain network in IIS 7

I have a Windows server running for development and I noticed that on my local machine which uses the local network to communicate to the server I get non-detailed error messages from IIS. For example, when my ColdFusion server throws an error, I…
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