Uma das vantagens da nova arquitetura modular do Internet Information Services 7.0 é a possibilidade de estender ou adicionar funcionalidades à um código / recursos já existentes.
Isto pode ser feito pela própria comunidade de Desenvolvedores e ITPros, que baseados em suas necessidades, criam funcionalidades extras e talvez queiram até mesmo compartilhar com outros, e até mesmo o time do produto, que pode facilmente implementar e disponibilizar módulos facilmente.
Uma maneira de saber quais módulos estão disponíveis é acessar regularmente o site WWW.IIS.NET, mais especificamente a área de “Extensions”: http://www.iis.net/extensions
Neste link você encontra inúmeras extensões, disponibilizadas de modo gratuito. Fiz uma listagem delas aqui neste post:
Content Publishing
March 22nd, 2008
The FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 allows Web content creators to publish content more easily and securely to IIS 7.0 Web servers using modern Internet publishing standards. New features like SSL-based authentication and data transfer protect sensitive data while on the network.
July 2nd, 2008
The WebDAV Extension for IIS 7.0 enables Web authors to publish content easily and more securely to IIS 7.0 Web servers. Because WebDAV is deeply integrated with IIS 7.0, Web administrators and hosters can manage WebDAV settings using IIS 7.0 management and configuration tools.
Deployment and Migration
November 6th, 2008
Microsoft has created the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool, which provides deployment and migration support for Internet Information Services versions 6.0 and 7.0. This tool incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy, sync and migrate sites, including configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a Web server.
Media Serving
November 7th, 2008
The Bit Rate Throttling module has compelling features for media and data delivery. For many scenarios, this feature will reduce bandwidth costs while increasing per-server capacity for concurrent download connections.
November 7th, 2008
Web Playlists is an IIS 7.0 Extension that provides developers and hosters unprecedented control of how media content is delivered to users. Personalize content, prevent ad skipping, and monetize your assets.
February 4th, 2008
Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content to clients over the Internet or a private network. Whether you are streaming content to millions of simultaneous users via a CDN, or to thousands of workers in your company, Windows Media Services provides the reliability, scalability, and affordability you need.
Application Hosting
March 27th, 2008
The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), which has been supported by IIS since it's first release.
Request Handling
November 10th, 2008
URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing request URL's before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to express URL rewriting logic that can use regular expressions or wildcards and can make rewriting decisions based on HTTP headers and server variables.
July 2nd, 2008
Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms.
Server Management
May 13th, 2008
The IIS 7.0 Administration Pack adds to the set of management features that ship with IIS 7.0 to include Administration UI support for ASP.NET authorization, custom errors, FastCGI configuration, Request Filtering and much more.
May 13th, 2008
Database Manager allows you to easily manage your local and remote databases from within IIS Manager. Database Manager automatically discovers databases based on a Web server or application's configuration and also provides the ability to connect to any database on the network.
July 14th, 2008
The new remote administration tool for IIS 7.0 provides end users and administrators with a way to remotely manage IIS 7.0 servers from Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The tool provides administrators and users with a familiar user interface to manage and configure their servers.
July 3rd, 2008
The IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider is a PowerShell Snap-In that allows you to manage IIS7 configuration and run-time data. It gives easy access to Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications, Virtual Directories, request in flight, Worker Processes and .NET Application Domains within Worker Processes.
Security
November 2nd, 2008
UrlScan version 3.1 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 will process. UrlScan screens all incoming requests to the server by filtering the requests based on rules that are set by the administrator. Filtering requests helps secure the server by ensuring that only valid requests are processed
