http://blogs.technet.com/jorke/archive/2008/06/25/php-on-iis7-for-shared-hosting-awesome-article.aspxcheck it out on IIS.NET - http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/208/fastcgi-with-php/   here are a couple of excerpts from the article that I strongly recommend: ----------- PHP Security Recommendations The following recommendations describe how to tightenen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)