IIS7 Compression Configuration

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Published on 2010-06-06T03:35:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 3:42 UTC
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Hi,

Previously when I used IIS6, I used IIS6 Metabase Explorer to edit Metabase.xml and manually turned on compression, specified the compression level and the file extensions to compress.

IIS7 seems a bit different, there is no Metabase.xml file in the system32\inetsrv folder. Enabling compression is easy to turn on by checking the checkbox in the Compression module. But how do I manually tweak and set the compression levels and file extensions to compress?

I also ran across an article saying that IIS7 also automatically throttles the compression if your CPU load is > 50% then compression is turned off. Where are all these settings located?

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