Vista SKUs and IIS 7.0
Do you get IIS 7.0 with Vista Home edition? Well, yes and no - Yes for Home Premium and No for Home Basic edition :) So which editions of Vista comes with IIS 7.0 ? Microsoft plans to release 5 SKUs for Vista, and IIS is included with
| Vista Starter |
No |
| Vista Home Basic |
Yes (very limited) |
| Vista Home Premium |
Yes (limited) |
| Vista Business |
Yes |
| Vista Enterprise |
Yes |
| Vista Ultimate |
Yes |
Starter edition is not really a SKU as it is just striped down version of Home edition which has been customized and localized. Next, the good news for Vista IIS is that it no longer has the 10 concurrent connections limit that you see with XP Pro. Horrayyyyyy! and you have the ability to host more that 1 website with Vista IIS! developers will love this! yeahhhhh! no more virtual directory hassle for separate application. So no more limitation? Vista IIS will be the same as the full blown version with Longhorn IIS? Well, you wish :) I think the standard limitations such as IP restriction, odbc logging (??), etc still applied. While there is no more connections and websites limit, you will now get a new request processing limit, meaning at one time the IIS is capable to process X number of requests at any one time, and subsequence incoming requests will be hold in the process queue. This is not too bad deal consider with the removal of other limitations.
Oh ya, what is IIS (limited) for Vista Home Premium? Well, it has the full features set of Vista IIS, except FTP services component. What else is missing? Errr..... NNTP is gone :( frontpage is gone :) SMTP? should be there but don't expect any fancy improvement. what else? mm.... time to go now, let you know when I have more info about IIS 7.0
Updated 7/06/06 - Thomas Deml - Lead PM has posted more information about the request limit of Vista IIS. Home editions can serve up to 3 requests concurrently :( and take note of the very limited IIS of Home Basic edition as well.