system.applicationHost Section Group [IIS Settings Schema]

Note

For more information about the applicationHost element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: <system.ApplicationHost>.

Contains global configuration settings that are used by Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) in IIS 7.

Syntax

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements for this section.

None.

Element	Description
applicationPools	Optional element. Contains default configuration settings for all application pools on the server and defines configuration settings for specific application pools.
configHistory Optional	Specifies the configuration history settings for a server.
customMetadata	Optional element. Contains settings that are used internally by the Admin Base Object (ABO) mapper component of IIS 7.
listenerAdapters	Optional element. Specifies configuration settings for listener adapters, which are components that establish communication between non-HTTP protocol listeners and WAS.
log	Optional element. Specifies the logging mode for a server.
serviceAutoStartProviders	Specifies a collection of managed assemblies that will be loaded when the AlwaysRunning is specifed for an applocation pool's startMode. Note: This element was added in IIS 7.5.
sites	Optional element. Defines all sites on the server, and all applications and virtual directories in those sites.
webLimits	Optional element. Configures TCP/IP connection and bandwidth limits.

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by IIS 7.

For more information about the applicationHost element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: <system.ApplicationHost>.

Configuration locations	ApplicationHost.config
Requirements	Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0
IIS 7.5	The serviceAutoStartProviders element was added in IIS 7.5.