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- **IIS and ASP.NET work together**: IIS 6.0 users right-click on a web site, select "All Properties", and get a dialog with a number of tabs for different settings. With IIS 7.0 and above, IIS Manager needed to show configuration for new features like Output Caching, [Failed Request Tracing](../../troubleshoot/using-failed-request-tracing/troubleshooting-failed-requests-using-tracing-in-iis.md), and [Request Filtering](../../manage/configuring-security/use-request-filtering.md), as well as configuration for ASP.NET and relevant portions of the .NET Framework. The new functionality would have required many more of new tabs, an unacceptable option.
- **Delegated Administration**: Moving our configuration from the metabase to the .NET configuration system means that users can, if permitted, set IIS configuration in web.config files. For example, configuration for an application ```http://www.contoso.com/sales``` can be written to the root config file applicationHost.config, to the site ```http://www.contoso.com/``` web.config file, or directly to the application's web.config file. The new IIS Manager has to: 1) allow an administrator to control the configuration permitted in web.config files, 2) show the administrator/user where configuration is being written. The older IIS Manager was not up to these challenges.
- **Engineering Reasons**: Software has a shelf life. Time brings new technologies, new requirements, new conventions, and there comes a point where updating existing software becomes more labour intensive and costly that rebuilding the software. IIS Manager was approaching the end of its shelf life.
- **Engineering Reasons**: Software has a shelf life. Time brings new technologies, new requirements, new conventions, and there comes a point where updating existing software becomes more labour intensive and costly than rebuilding the software. IIS Manager was approaching the end of its shelf life.

**Anything else to know?** Once we decided to rewrite IIS Manager, we took the opportunity to improve in a number of key ways:

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