IIS 8 : New Features

The new features or functionality for IIS 8 includes:

Centralized Certificates
A single SSL certificate store for a server farm and simplifies the management of SSL bindings.

Dynamic IP Restrictions
Enables administrators to configure IIS 8 to block access for IP addresses that exceed the specified number of requests and to specify the behavior when an IP address is blocked.

FTP Logon Attempt Restrictions
Restricts the number of failed logon attempts that can be made to an FTP account in a specified time period.

Server Name Indication (SNI)
Extends the SSL and TSL protocols to allow a virtual domain name, or a hostname, to be used to identify the network end point.

Application Initialization
Enables web administrators to configure IIS 8 to initialize web applications, so the application is ready for the first request.

NUMA-aware scalability
Provides support for NUMA hardware, which allows 32-128 CPU cores. This support provides near optimal out-of-the-box performance on NUMA hardware.

IIS CPU Throttling
This has been updated, it limits CPU, memory, and bandwidth consumption by a single application pool in a multitenant deployment. IIS 8 now includes additional throttling options.