Why can't I find URL Rewrite feature in the IIS manager?

 In your Windows 11 Home, if you install Internet Information Services you may not find URL Rewrite feature in the features list.

You need to install it on your computer. You may download from here:

Down load URL Rewrite

If you install this rewrite_amd64_en-US.msi (specific to my architecture), then you will find the URL Rewrite feature in the IIS Manager as shown.

The difference between services from the Control Panel and from the Windows Features

 There is a significant difference between the two. This is probably new in Windows 11.

I had to wade through a search, to home in on this difference because I could not enable Internet Information Services Manager by the legacy way of going through Windows Control Panel.

Control Panel --> Programs and Features-> Turn Windows Features on and Off

The above sequence displays the features in which the IIS is missing.

 

However, enabling Internet related items does install IIS. The IIS Manager can even be found in C:\Windows\system32\inetserv. It appears the IIS Manager is not fully functional according to Gemini.

It appears the correct way to enable IIS Manager is via Windows Features which brings up the same Turn windows Features on and off but now you can see the IIS.

Enabling IIS Manager through windows Features is the correct way and from the Services you can now turn on/turn off some of the services like IIS, .NET Framework, or Hyper-V. The windows services for most of other more operations like BitLocker Encryption, Storage management, file system operation, etc.

As Windows evolve things get changed continuously.

See also, here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30901434/iis-manager-in-windows-10

What are the differences between IIS and IIS Express?

 There are a number of differences. 

Here is a table I extracted from the Microsoft website:

Can I manage IIS Express in IIS Manager?

 The simple answer is no. 

IIS is managed by IIS Manager and appcmd.exe

IIS Express is managed by Appcmd.exe

IIS Express Management tasks are built into:

WebMatrix

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and later versions