schema in IIS 7.0

TheMSsForum.com: The Microsoft Software Forum

Anyone know of a good white paper that talks about the schema in IIS 7.0
(IIS_schema.xml)? Looking for a decent reference on it.
Top

Re: schema in IIS 7.0 by David

David
Mon Apr 02 00:06:31 CDT 2007

On Apr 1, 7:49 pm, "dogface" <pwhitl...@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Anyone know of a good white paper that talks about the schema in IIS 7.0
> (IIS_schema.xml)? Looking for a decent reference on it.


If you don't find it on iis.net, then you will not find it anywhere
else.

The problem is this -- you may deem this "core" information, but
relative to the number of "bang-for-the-buck" whitepapers, this one is
pretty low on the list.

It's at least 10:1 the number of people who want instructions on which
properties to tweak to do logical operation "X" vs. knowing what each
of the properties actually mean. It is another 10:1 the number of
people who want to know the properties vs know how to add properties
used by extension modules.

Thus, you are asking for information that <1% of users want. And with
limited resources, the IIS team will be applying them towards the 90%
users.

Historically, I like blogging about that 1% (I discuss IIS6 and parts
of IIS7 a whole lot) because I think understanding it is the best way
to learn a product like IIS. It enables you to reason and do
everything else, instead of mindlessly following "HOWTO instructions"
which can go out of date. Understanding the 1% may be harder, but it
never goes out of date.

Now, I happen to think the schemal XML file to be pretty self-
explanatory. What exact question do you have about it.

I just think that the information you are looking for will have to
come from some of the IIS team members, but I do not think they have
ever done things like that. And I won't trust a 3rd party's
interpretation of what is going on because that's reverse-engineering
-- I'd rather learn the real truth and not someone else's reverse
engineered truth.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Top

Re: schema in IIS 7.0 by dogface

dogface
Mon Apr 02 00:37:09 CDT 2007

I just read the "IIS 7 Configuration Reference - an ApplicationHost.config
Walkthrough" from the www.iis.net. It covers what I was looking for about
the schema. After reading that, the schema is pretty self-explanatory now
that I sort of know what I'm looking at and how it works.

Thanks.


"David Wang" <w3.4you@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175490391.842317.158490@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 1, 7:49 pm, "dogface" <pwhitl...@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know of a good white paper that talks about the schema in IIS 7.0
>> (IIS_schema.xml)? Looking for a decent reference on it.
>
>
> If you don't find it on iis.net, then you will not find it anywhere
> else.
>
> The problem is this -- you may deem this "core" information, but
> relative to the number of "bang-for-the-buck" whitepapers, this one is
> pretty low on the list.
>
> It's at least 10:1 the number of people who want instructions on which
> properties to tweak to do logical operation "X" vs. knowing what each
> of the properties actually mean. It is another 10:1 the number of
> people who want to know the properties vs know how to add properties
> used by extension modules.
>
> Thus, you are asking for information that <1% of users want. And with
> limited resources, the IIS team will be applying them towards the 90%
> users.
>
> Historically, I like blogging about that 1% (I discuss IIS6 and parts
> of IIS7 a whole lot) because I think understanding it is the best way
> to learn a product like IIS. It enables you to reason and do
> everything else, instead of mindlessly following "HOWTO instructions"
> which can go out of date. Understanding the 1% may be harder, but it
> never goes out of date.
>
> Now, I happen to think the schemal XML file to be pretty self-
> explanatory. What exact question do you have about it.
>
> I just think that the information you are looking for will have to
> come from some of the IIS team members, but I do not think they have
> ever done things like that. And I won't trust a 3rd party's
> interpretation of what is going on because that's reverse-engineering
> -- I'd rather learn the real truth and not someone else's reverse
> engineered truth.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>

Top

Re: schema in IIS 7.0 by dogface

dogface
Mon Apr 02 00:39:14 CDT 2007

There is one thing, if you know off the top of your head. In the
ApplicationHost.config file, I see a section called "configHistory" but I
can't find anything that references it or describes it. What does that
section do?


"David Wang" <w3.4you@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175490391.842317.158490@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 1, 7:49 pm, "dogface" <pwhitl...@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know of a good white paper that talks about the schema in IIS 7.0
>> (IIS_schema.xml)? Looking for a decent reference on it.
>
>
> If you don't find it on iis.net, then you will not find it anywhere
> else.
>
> The problem is this -- you may deem this "core" information, but
> relative to the number of "bang-for-the-buck" whitepapers, this one is
> pretty low on the list.
>
> It's at least 10:1 the number of people who want instructions on which
> properties to tweak to do logical operation "X" vs. knowing what each
> of the properties actually mean. It is another 10:1 the number of
> people who want to know the properties vs know how to add properties
> used by extension modules.
>
> Thus, you are asking for information that <1% of users want. And with
> limited resources, the IIS team will be applying them towards the 90%
> users.
>
> Historically, I like blogging about that 1% (I discuss IIS6 and parts
> of IIS7 a whole lot) because I think understanding it is the best way
> to learn a product like IIS. It enables you to reason and do
> everything else, instead of mindlessly following "HOWTO instructions"
> which can go out of date. Understanding the 1% may be harder, but it
> never goes out of date.
>
> Now, I happen to think the schemal XML file to be pretty self-
> explanatory. What exact question do you have about it.
>
> I just think that the information you are looking for will have to
> come from some of the IIS team members, but I do not think they have
> ever done things like that. And I won't trust a 3rd party's
> interpretation of what is going on because that's reverse-engineering
> -- I'd rather learn the real truth and not someone else's reverse
> engineered truth.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>

Top