IIS Express Overview Microsoft Docsby Vaidy Gopalakrishnan. IIS Express is a lightweight, self contained version of IIS optimized for developers. IIS Express makes it easy to use the most current version of IIS to develop and test websites. It has all the core capabilities of IIS 7 and above as well as additional features designed to ease website development including It doesnt run as a service or require administrator user rights to perform most tasks. IIS Express works well with ASP. AR8EdupYbJg/maxresdefault.jpg' alt='Install Iis On Windows 2003 R2 Sp1' title='Install Iis On Windows 2003 R2 Sp1' />NET and PHP applications. Multiple users of IIS Express can work independently on the same computer. Installing IIS Express. The most current version of the product is IIS 7. Express. Most of you will want to use IIS Express with a web authoring tool that provides an integrated experience. IIS Express is automatically included with Web. Matrix, a new and complete tool that greatly simplifies web development. Visual Studio 2. 01. SP1 allows IIS Express used as the web server instead of Cassini. You can also manually configure Visual Studio 2. Use one of the following links to install IIS 7. Express using Web Platform Installer. Either of them will allow you to use IIS Express with Visual Studio. You an also install the IIS 7. Express MSI directly from the Microsoft Download Center. If you choose this route, please make sure. NET 4. 0 is installed on your machine, since that is a necessary prerequisite. IIS Express and IISIIS Express is derived from IIS 7 and above and supports the core features of IIS however, there are some key differences. An important difference is the way worker processes are managed. In IIS, the Windows Process Activation Service WAS silently activates and deactivates Web applications and the user has no direct control. In IIS Express, there is no WAS and the user has full control of application activation and deactivation. Sites can be launched using Web. Matrix, Visual Studio 2. SP1 or the command line websites that are already running can be launched and terminated using the system tray application. Hostable Web Core HWC is an IIS API that can be used to write to independent Web servers that are not managed by WAS. IIS Express is designed as a wrapper over HWC. The following chart outlines some of the major differences between IIS and IIS Express Area. IISIIS Express. Shipping mechanism. Ships with the OS. Ships out of band. It is automatically included with Web. Matrix but can also be installed separately. Supported Windows editions. How to install the Exchange Server 2010 prerequisites on Windows Server 2008. Limited number of Windows Vista and Windows 7 editions Most editions of Windows Server 2. R2. All editions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 All editions of Windows Server 2. R2. Supported. NET Framework versionsv. SP1 and abovev. 2. SP1 and above. NET 4. Supported programming languages. Classic ASP, ASP. NET, and PHPClassic ASP, ASP. NET, and PHPProcess model. Windows Process Activation Service WAS automatically manages configured sites. User launches and terminates sites. Hosted Web. Core aka Hostable Web Core support. Yes. Yes. IIS Express is implemented as a layer over HWC. Fifa Rules Abandoned Game. Supported protocols. HTTP, FTP, Web. DAV, HTTPS, and WCF including over TCP, Named Pipes, and MSMQHTTP, HTTPS, and WCF over HTTPNon admin support. WAS must run with administrator user rights. A full step by step guide on prerequisites and each stage of installing exchange 2010 onto your network 2008 server. The Update Rollup 3 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is now available for download from Windows Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update. A standard user is allowed to complete most tasks. Multi developer support. None. Yes. Configuration files, settings, and Web content are maintained on a per user basis. Visual Studio support. Yes. VS 2. 01. 0 SP1 Beta allows IIS Express to be used instead of Cassini. VS 2. 00. 8 can also be manually configured to use IIS Express. Runtime extensions. See https www. All for a complete list. URL Rewrite and Fast. CGI. These extensions are built into IIS Express. Management tools. IIS Manager, appcmd. Appcmd. exe. Common IIS Express management tasks are also built into Web. Matrix and Visual Studio 2. SP1 and later. System tray support. None. Yes. Includes built in IIS modules for authentication, authorization, compression, etc.