Remote Administration
In IIS Manager, remote connections are not available by default. To manage IIS 7.0 running on Windows Server 2008 remotely, you need to set up the client machines and configure the server for remote administration.
To administer IIS 7.0 running on Windows Server 2008 remotely from client machines running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows XP SP2, you need to install IIS Manager on these client machines and then connect to sites and applications on the server you need to manage. You can download IIS Manager for these operating systems from http://iis.net/downloads.
On the server, you must explicitly enable remote management of IIS 7.0 through IIS Manager. This is different than IIS 6.0, ...
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