How to Enable IIS Dynamic Compression

Dynamic Compression in IIS can help to improve performance in the Actions Express UI.

Prerequisites

• Administrator access to the server with IIS
• IIS installed on the server

Instructions

Install the Dynamic Content Compression

1. Open the Server Manager.
2. Click Add Roles and Features.
3. Navigate to Internet Information Services (IIS).
4. Under Performance Features, select Dynamic Content Compression.
5. Click Install.

Enable the Dynamic Compression in IIS Manager

1. Open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Select the server name on the Server Home page.
3. Click Compression under IIS settings.
4. Configure the settings:
   1. Check Enable Dynamic Content Compression.
   2. Change the Static Compression Value to 256.
   3. Uncheck the Per Application Pool Disk Limit.
5. Click Apply.

Update Configuration in IIS Management

1. Navigate to Management > Configuration Editor.
2. Go to system.webServer/httpCompression in the Configuration Editor.
3. Click DynamicTypes and then click the ellipsis (...) button.
4. Click Add and enter the folloing MIME types with Enabled = true:
   • application/xaml+xml
   • application/atom+xml
   • image/svg+xml
   • image/png
   • text/html
   • font/woff2
   • font/x-woff
   • application/font-woff2
   • application/json
5. Click Apply.

Restart IIS

1. Open Command Prompt as an Administrator.

2. Run the following command:

   IIRESET

note

The first login will be slower as pages are cached.