IIS is built on an open and modular architecture that allows you customize and add new features through free IIS Extensions.
on the following link here, you can find in the iis.net official site all the IIS extensions in order to install it on you server or local IIS.
The IIS team always adding new features to IIS to help you optimize your website for search, serve media to multiple platforms and devices, deploy web applications, route URL requests and more!
Some of the current extensions are (and of course you can read about them on their site):
- FTP Publishing Service – content publishing utility that help you do it more securely and easy
- Web Deployment Tool – This tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites.
- URL Rewrite - IIS URL Rewrite 2.0 enables Web administrators to create powerful rules to implement URLs that are easier for users to remember and easier for search engines to find.
- etc…