Whether it is an administrator struggling to meet the uptime guaranteed in a service level agreement, or a developer working to meet a delivery deadline, both developers and network administrators have wrestled with web server configuration since Microsoft first introduced Internet Information Server (IIS) many years ago. While there will still be plenty of challenges for both administrators and developers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has made many tasks easier by overhauling the way in which IIS 7 handles configuration. From shared configuration for web farms, to xcopy deployment there are many changes in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 to be excited about.

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