Published: 09 Jun 2011
By: Scott Forsyth

Week 18 of a 52 web pro series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers advanced IIS management by editing of applicationHost.config.

Last week I covered IIS 7(.5)’s distributed and delegated configuration system. This week I’ll take it a step further and look specifically at editing applicationHost.config in a text editor (e.g. notepad) to make more advanced configuration changes.

While it’s not ‘hacking’ per se since it’s fully supported, this topic covers ways to get under the covers to make more advanced configuration changes. This week’s video shows how easy—yet powerful—it is to understand and utilize IIS’s configuration system directly.

This is week 18 of a 52 week Web Pro series on various web administration related tasks.

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About Scott Forsyth

Senior Systems Engineer at ORCS Web, Inc (www.orcsweb.com) and co-founder of Vaasnet (www.vaasnet.com). Microsoft MVP for IIS. ASPInsider. Strengths are IIS, ASP.NET, DNS, Windows Server, and Hyper-V.

This author has published 50 articles on DotNetSlackers. View other articles or the complete profile here.

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