Application initialization Module for IIS 7.5

Http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-initialization

Overview

IIS application initialization for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites By loading the WEB applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP. D loading of modules, IT professionals can ensure their web sites is responsive at all times even if their Web sites use A custom request pipeline or if the application Pool is recycled. While a application is being initialized, IIS can also being configured to return an alternate response such as Static Conte NT as a placeholder or "splash page" until an application have completed its initialization tasks.

Note:application initialization is built-in for IIS 8.0. For more information, see IIS 8.0 application initialization.

Improved customer experience While the application are warming up

IIS application initialization empowers developers to manage the experience, the users see when they request an applicatio  N that's not initialized. The developer can specify a set of URLs to execute to initialize an application, and IIS can is configured to return a AL Ternate response such as static content until the application is finished initializing.

Decrease the response time for first requests by pre-loading worker processes

IIS application initialization allows website administrators to configure a Web application to be pre-loaded as soon as th E worker process starts, before the first request arrives. By pre-loading the application, the worker process was able to reduce the time it takes to respond to the first request. The loading and initialization of the dependencies such as database connections,. NET Framework, and the Just-in-time comp Ilation for ASP applications and dependencies has already been performed by the time the request arrives to the serve R.

Increase reliability by pre-loading worker processes when Overlapped Recycling occurs

The response times for the first requests in an Overlapped Recycling scenario is reduced by also pre-loading dependencies . The recycled worker process would communicate its readiness and would start accepting requests after it finishes Loadin G and initializing the resources as specified by the configuration.

Download application initialization for IIS 7.5

• x86 for Windows 7
• x64 for Windows 7 or Windows Server R2

Application initialization Module for IIS 7.5