Internet Information Services

Internet Information Services ( IIS) (formerly Internet Information Server ) is a service platform of the company Microsoft for PCs and servers. About it can be made accessible documents and files on the network. As communication protocols this HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, WebDAV, and other enhancements. . NET applications (ASP.NET) IIS ASP can be imported or exported, and - with the appropriate installable ISAPI filters - PHP and JSP.

Operating Systems

IIS services can be used on the following Microsoft's own operating systems. Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 The latest version is IIS 8.5 ( 10/ 2013).

For Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional Limited IIS services in the respective versions are supplied as an optional component. Here, the number of simultaneous connections is limited to a maximum of 10, and only one site (the " Default Web Site " ) be established. The plan is to use purely as a test and development environment. This IIS Express version is also included in all versions of Visual Studio 2012.

IIS 7.0 is not only contained in Windows Server 2008, but also in the Business, Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Windows Vista. A limited version (maximum 3 compounds ) is included in Vista Home Premium.

Versions

  • IIS 1.0 was available as a download for Windows NT 3.51.
  • IIS 2.0 is included with Windows NT 4.0.
  • IIS 3.0 was installed with Service Pack 2 on Windows NT 4.0. It was the first version with the Active Server Pages.
  • IIS 4.0 was 4.0 available as a download for Windows NT, together with the Option Pack. The option pack offered many other technologies such as Microsoft Transaction Server, Microsoft Index Server, the Certificate Server and Site Server Express. With the exception of the last all these products have been incorporated directly into IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000.
  • IIS 5.0 is included with Windows 2000. Effective immediately, the product " Microsoft Internet Information Services" ( instead of " Microsoft Internet Information Server" ) is called.
  • IIS 5.1 is included with Windows XP Professional and Windows MCE. (32- bit versions)
  • IIS 6.0 is integrated x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 and in Windows XP. He has been redesigned from the ground up to solve security problems. So now, any Web server extension, such as ASP, ASP. NET, Internet Printing, Server Side Includes (SSI ), etc. to be explicitly turned on, so that unused offer features not potential security vulnerabilities.
  • IIS 7.0 is included in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008.
  • IIS 7.5 is included with Windows Server 2008 R2 and in Windows 7
  • IIS 8.0 is included with Windows Server 2012 and in Windows 8.
  • IIS 8.5 is built into Windows Server 2012 R2 and in Windows 8.1.
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