What's not supported in IIS 7

Gong Xi Fa Cai :) to those celebrating Chinese New Year. As usual, been busy, will be traveling again next week. Just read this from iis.net. While IIS 7 offers is completely redesign and offers many cool features, please be aware that the following features NO longer support/exist in IIS7:

a) IIS 6 URL Authorization - Never configure before :p, do you use this?
b) FPSE Support - Bad news for those that use this for web publising, I don't really like it. I'm happy with Ftp.
c) WebDav - Ouch...not on Vista, but you should see add-on support for Longhorn
d) NNTP - Errr... traditionaly not with client OS, but I do use it for IIS 6 for internal newsgroups, etc. Longhorn will not support this as well :(
e) Digest Auth - This will now required W2k3 or Longhorn domain controller, W2k not supported
f) Sub-authentication - They have finally clear this out, no more sub-auth support for IIS 7.
g) Content Rating - Hehehe... again. so far I only see one posting out of many years for this feature.
i) Passport Auth - Another feature that I don't think many uses, do you ?
j) IIS Users recreation - This focus on iwam/iusr _computername account. This changed in IIS7, you will see iusr built-in account instead.
k) VBS scripts - all iis*.vbs is gone, and adsutil.vbs is there but very limited since IIS7 no longer store config in metabase.
l) Pause Website - Mm.. I don't get this. The article claimed there's another way to do this. So it is still pausing the website, right?

To get more detail and other changes, read this article.

Published Fri, Mar 2 2007 15:18 by qbernard
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Comments

# Joe said on 30 March, 2007 01:49 PM

The WebDAV support discontinuation is -brutal-. Does it make any sense to feature security for Windows Vista and then tell users to use FTP to upload files to IIS, transmitting their credentials in the clear?? Arg.

# qbernard said on 30 March, 2007 11:27 PM

Joe,

Well, the deal is that Vista is not suppose to be the production web server, hence DAV doesn't include in the bill. For ftp, If i'm not mistaken there'll be out of band ftp component in near future (LH timeframe) which will support ftps, etc.

# God said on 02 April, 2007 06:42 AM

There is a typo. It should be iwaM, not iwaN.

# qbernard said on 02 April, 2007 09:35 AM

Oops. thanks man.

# Joe said on 09 April, 2007 04:26 PM

Well, I get the not-a-production-server idea, but webDAV isn't just for production servers. It's for testing, too. And it's also for file transfer to your computer when you're outside the intranet, something that is painfully missing in Vista now.

The fact is, when you're a small time operation, you want to use your local IIS to test sites you're working on. Removing webDAV basically means Microsoft is saying, "Don't want to work within the intranet? Get longhorn server." This will require both a software and hardware investment for me, just to be able to upload content from the coffee house. I mean, come on!

RE: SFTP, that would be alright, though I think I read somewhere that was only going to be for Longhorn server. If not, I guess I'll be mollified-- but still grumpy! :-)

# qbernard said on 10 April, 2007 12:47 AM

Hi Joe, I will try relay the msgs to the product team, but no promise :) and SFTP and FTPS are two different technologies, whereas formal is using secure shell stuff to wrap over the ftp communication, but ftps is pure SSL cert implementation over ftp protocal.

# Wiebe Tijsma said on 16 April, 2007 02:01 PM

I also miss the WebDAV support (yes for development purposes), any workarounds?

# qbernard said on 16 April, 2007 11:23 PM

Nope :) ftp maybe ?

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