The following enhancements have been introduced in this release of BIS for extend:
This version no longer requires IIS 6 metabase compatibility
Previous versions of BIS required that, for IIS 7 and later, IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility be enabled when IIS is installed. This is because the installer and the BISMkDir program used the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) to configure IIS and create virtual directories.
Starting with extend 10, BIS includes a new program called BISMkApp, which natively creates IIS applications without using ADSI. This means that IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility is no longer required, and other problems that were caused by the IIS 6 metabase translation layer, such as the IIS configuration files becoming larger with each installation or configuration, are no longer an issue.
Both BISMkApp and BISMkDir are installed with BIS for extend, and both provide similar functionality, which may be used if IIS 6 metabase compatibility is installed on IIS 7 and later. However, BISMkDir is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
BIS for extend 10 now supports Apache 2.4 on UNIX, but is limited to an Apache 2.4 linked with the Prefork MPM. Support for Apache 2.2 continues.