Remove Server Response Header IIS 8.0 / 8.5

Question

How can we remove the server header response in IIS 8.0/8.5?
My current server report: Microsoft-IIS/8.0 Microsoft-IIS/8.5
For IIS 7.0 I

Answer 1

URLScan has been discontinued starting from IIS 7.5, since its functionalities are supposed to be available through "request filtering" option (feature added in IIS 7.5).

But the URLScan's 'Remove server header' option does not look like having any equivalent in "request filtering".

As said on this answer and this answer to you question, you can emptied the Server with URLRewrite instead, which remains available on IIS 8/8.5 (with some update required for having its UI in IIS administration console).

It turns out, looking at this blog, that URLScan can still be installed on IIS 8/8.5, if lack of official support is not an issue.

I have not tested myself. Here are the steps:

• Install IIS 6 Metabase compatibility (if not already there)
• Install Isapi Filters (if not already there)
• Install URLScan (from download-able installer, not from web platform installer)
• Configure URLScan through its ini file (by default in C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\urlscan)

Maybe some iisreset or even a reboot should be done. URLScan should be visible in IIS among Isapi filters