what is the Role of IIS

In this post i am sharing you what is IIS and their roles and how it works?. Internet Information Services (IIS) is a flexible, general-purpose web server from Microsoft that runs on Windows systems to serve requested HTML pages or files.

An IIS web server accepts requests from remote client computers and returns the appropriate response. This basic functionality allows web servers to share and deliver information across local area networks, such as corporate intranets, and wide area networks, such as the internet.

User Experience:

Sharing information on the Internet is a simple process of a user (or client) using a Web browser such as Internet Explorer (IE) to request a file from a Web server such as IIS.

The Web server sends the browser a response that contains the requested file as well as headers that contain connection information. The Web browser uses the HTML tags in the file to properly format and display the data in the file. A Web browser that displays HTML has the capacity to mimic any user interface.

Role of IIS:

• IIS fulfills the role of the Web server, responding to requests for files from Web clients such as IE, and logging activity.
• IIS maintains information about the location of content files, what security identities have access to those files, how content files are separated into applications, and what URLs are mapped to those applications. This information can be configured manually or programmatically by using one of the IIS administration technologies.
• IIS can communicate with software such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to make Web content creation fast and easy. Web content can be created to take advantage of one of the IIS development technologies.