Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) in IIS 7
By Santhosh N
This explains the new service, WAS in IIS 7
Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) was introduced in the IIS 7 version and
this is used to manage application pools and worker processes instead of the
the World Wide Web (WWW) service. This lets the same configuration and process
model for HTTP and non HTTP sites as well.
One more advantage of
WAS is to run this without WWW if HTTP functionality is not required for the
application.
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