>IIS is installed on all versions of Vista and Windows 7.
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>Even Vista Home Basic? Wow, I just learned something, I always thought Home Basic was akin to XP Home....that you could never even run PWS on XP Home (though I read about some bizarre registry hacks)

Yeah it's there but it's not externally modifiable. They just hide it. Windows internally uses the WAS hosting architecture used for WCF support (which Microsoft uses internally for various things) and IIS is requried for that. But for all intents and purposes - yeah for the end user it's not configurable.

I *think* (but I'm not 100% sure) in Windows 7 IIS is available normally on all but Home Basic.


>I believe even IIS on Home Premium has a few asterisks beside it, because of the no Windows Authentication support (I know people who try to install SSRS 2005 on a Home Premium machine, and discover they can't deploy reports to a local server)