IIS Compression in IIS6.0 - Scott Forsyth's Blog. Hold on to your hats folks.
If you don't have compression installed on your web server, either IIS Compression or a 3rd party, and you have IIS6.0 and pay for bandwidth you're missing out on something good. In the day of IIS5 and earlier the compression built into IIS had various issues and was really not worth implementing. To enable compression you would need to go with a 3rd party solution like www.port80software.com or www.xcompress.com. This has all changed in IIS6! Getting Started with IIS Manager : Management Tool Options : Planning Your IIS 7 Architecture. Introduction This IIS Manager overview explains why IIS 7 and above have a new user interface from previous versions of IIS, and then goes on to describe the look and feel, feature delegation, interaction with configuration, and remoting. This document was written for Windows Server ® 2008. Windows Vista may not have some of the functionality/features discussed in this document.
The new Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager was first introduced in IIS 7.0. Getting Started with IIS Manager : Management Tool Options : Planning Your IIS 7 Architecture.