Published: 07 May 2011
By: Scott Forsyth

Week 15 of a 52 series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers the 4 folder types in IIS, particularly the differences between vdirs and applications.

Virtual Directories and applications are useful special folder types in IIS. Yet it’s easy to be confused between them.

Today I cover the differences between vDirs and Applications as I cover the 4 different IIS folder types.

This is week 15 of a 52 week 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.

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