The IIS Manager
The IIS Manager is the redesigned user interface (UI) that provides access to the configuration settings of IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET via an integrated tool. It was designed from the ground up to be an easily extensible platform for exposing all the Web platform settings in a unified way. Part of this platform design includes providing a remoting infrastructure for built-in features as well as third-party features. For more information about IIS Manager, see Chapter 6.
To remotely manage a server, the IIS Manager needs to work in conjunction with a separate IIS 7.0 service called the Web Management Service (WMSvc), which is installed as part of the IIS Management Scripts And Tools role service.
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