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The first thing you should do after setting up an IIS7-server

This is really cool and a very useful feature. There’s only one little caveat in my opinion and that’s the fact that by default IIS7 will only save up to 10 backups. All the other backups will be discarded. This means that if you’re spending 20 minutes fiddling with the settings in ApplicationHost.config you will quite likely have overwritten all your old backups. Now, if something goes wrong at that point and you decide to spend another 20 minutes trying to fix this problem by further editing the ApplicationHost.config you will surely have overwritten the backups.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/johan/archive/2008/05/29/the-first-thing-you-should-do-after-setting-up-an-iis7-server.aspx

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