The IIS team has released another preview of even more additions to IIS 7.

This time its the IIS 7 admin pack which adds some UI features that enhance the administration experience beyond what you get out of the box. This is possible due to the overhaul of the IIS  configuriation system which allows UI extensibility as well control over the request processing pipeline.

The admin pack adds (quote from Carlos' blog)

Request Filtering UI - This UI exposes the configuration of the IIS runtime feature called Request Filtering.

• Configuration Editor UI - This UI provides an advanced generic configuration editor entirely driven by our configuration schema. It includes things like Script Generation, Search functionality, advanced information such as locking and much more.
• Database Manager UI - This UI allows you to manage SQL Server databases from within IIS Manager, including the ability to create tables, execute queries, add indexes, primary keys, query data, insert rows, delete rows, and much more.
• IIS Reports UI - This extensible platform exposes a set of reports including some log parser based reports, displaying things like Top URL's, Hits per User, Page Performance, and many more.
• FastCGI UI - This UI exposes the configuration for the FastCGI runtime feature.
• ASP.NET Authorization UI - This UI allows you to configure the ASP.NET authorization settings.
• ASP.NET Custom Errors UI - This UI allows you to configure the Custom errors functionality of ASP.NET

Pay particularly close attention to the Database Manager UI. Carlos' had this idea a while back and did some very cool demos with it while IIS 7 was in beta. You can manage your SQL database right in the IIS 7 UI! Sweet.

Check it out http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosag/archive/2008/03/21/IISAdminPackTP1Released.aspx

-brett