title: WCF service installation and verification in IIS and/or WAS
body: <p>I gather there is nothing more to deploying services than installing the .svc file and associated binaries in a hosted directory under IIS, as described here (IIS):</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733766.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733766.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>and here (WAS):</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733109.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733109.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>Two questions: </p>
  
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  <li><p>Is there any difference at all between these two scenarios for newer (>= 7.0) versions of IIS when using BasicHttpBinding?</p></li>
  <li><p>Is there any way to view/test the WCF services hosted from within IIS?  IIS has this nice UI but as far as I can tell, you have to look at web.config and test the services using wcftestclient or use a browser to see if everything is working at any given point.</p></li>
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