We have one FTP site set up (and working) basically like the instructions here: http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/using-the-ftp-service/creating-a-new-ftp-site-in-iis-7 It shows up under "Sites" and then the name of our FTP Site.
However, above "Sites" (in the left navigation tree view), we see a node called "FTP Sites". When we click on it, it says "FTP Management is provided by IIS 6.0".
Can someone give me the big picture of why this node appears, and why IIS 6 is involved? Is is some backward compatible feature? I didn't build these machines, so don't know the reasoning of what was done before I arrived on the scene.
Also, is the tree view icon for websites and FTP sites the same?
When Windows Server 2008 shipped, originally, the FTP functionality in IIS wasn't rewritten from the Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 FTP service, and the IIS 6.0 metabase and management tools were necessary for FTP functionality.
Microsoft shipped FTP 7.0 and 7.5 later on as add-on installations to Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2.
It sounds like you've still got the stock IIS 6.0 FTP service installed, along with the new IIS 7.0 FTP service. I wasn't actually aware that you could have both installed at the same time, but that's my best guess.