Windows Activation Services
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Windows Activation Service (WAS) introduced with Windows Vista, is the new process activation mechanism that ships with IIS 7.0. Windows Activation Service builds on the existing IIS 6.0 but is more powerful because it provides support for other protocols besides HTTP, such as TCP and Named Pipes.