This section explains how use IIS Manager to configure Internet Information Services (IIS) to execute Web-based applications with IIS in worker process isolation mode.

This section includes the following information:

• Configuring Application Pools in IIS 6.0: Explains the advantages of pooling application processes, and describes how to create and configure application pools.
  
  
• Recycling Worker Processes with IIS 6.0: Describes how to configure IIS to periodically restart worker processes in an application pool.
  
  
• Configuring Worker Processes for Idle Timeout: Describes how to configure idle process timeout, which is a resource management feature.
  
  
• Processor Affinity: Explains the concept of process/processor affinity.
  
  
• Configuring Web Gardens with IIS 6.0: Describes how to configure multiple application pools running under one worker process.
  
  
• Application Pool Health: Explains the concepts of application pool health and health monitoring.
  
  
• Configuring Health Monitoring: Describes how to enable IIS to monitor the health of each worker process.
  
  
• Configuring Rapid-Fail Protection in IIS 6.0: Describes how to protect resources when the requests to a worker process fail rapidly.
  
  
• Configuring Startup and Shutdown Time Limits: Explains how to configure a worker process to startup on demand when the first request for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is received.
  
  
• Configuring Application Pool Identity with IIS 6.0: Describes the security considerations that are related to configuring the identity of an application pool.