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This book demonstrates the advances offered by Microsoft's latest version of Internet Information Server (IIS). A thorough reading will reveal how to get up and running with IIS 6.0, Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS), as well as Microsoft's Application Center on Windows Server 2003. Additionally, Microsoft's implementation of FTP SMTP, and NNTP functionality will be explained. In This Book You'll Learn: How to install and setup IIS 6.0 How to configure web site application pools How to address common security issues How to configure Network Load Balancing Service About Windows Server 2003 advances About MS Application Center 2000. How to configure FTP, SMTP, NNTP and much more

Deploy and support IIS 6.0, which is included with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, with expertise direct from the Microsoft IIS product team. This official RESOURCE KIT packs 1200+ pages of in-depth deployment, operations, and technical information, including step-by-step instructions for common administrative tasks. Get critical details and guidance on security enhancements, the new IIS 6.0 architecture, migration strategies, performance tuning, logging, and troubleshooting—along with timesaving tools, IIS 6.0 product documentation, and a searchable eBook on CD. You get all the resources you need to help maximize the security, reliability, manageability, and performance of your Web server—while reducing system administration costs. Get in-depth guidance—straight from the Microsoft IIS team on how to: Upgrade or migrate existing IIS solutions to IIS 6.0 Migrate Apache Web sites—migration tool included on CD Deploy Microsoft ASP.NET applications on IIS 6.0 Configure and manage IIS security services Manage the IIS 6.0 metabase using built-in GUI-based and command-line utilities Run IIS 6.0 as a platform for Web applications Streamline programmatic administration with the scripts and tools on CD Apply best practices for improving server availability and scalability, including managing large-scale deployments Optimize IIS performance with effective monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting procedures Resource Kit tools plus Windows Server 2003 evaluation software inside Use IIS 6.0 Resource Kit tools to query log files, manage security features, run stress tests, migrate servers, troubleshoot problems, and more. The CD includes the following tools: Apache to IIS 6.0 Migration Tool CustomAuth IISCertDeploy.vbs IIS Host Helper Services IIS 6.0 Migration Tool IISState Log Parser Metabase Explorer Permissions Verifier RemapUrl SelfSSL TinyGet Web Capacity Analysis Tool WFetchCD also features: 180-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition IIS 6.0 Help system Windows Registry Reference Fully searchable eBook of this complete RESOURCE KIT A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [email protected].

Annotation Answers the cry of MS IIS server administrators, covering the upgrade and differences between IIS 5 and IIS 6 quickly without filler. Written by an Apache and IIS expert who can bridge the "Delta" for both open source and Microsoft Web server administrators. Includes information on the IIS 6 changes that affect open source use of the IIS sever covering Apache, Perl, Python, and PHP. In the US IIS runs 9.7 million servers and 5.3 million .com domains for companies like NASDAQ, AT&T, plus more. Microsofts Internet Information Server 6 in an Internet server program that works with the Windows Server 2003 operating systems. IIS is Microsofts answer in the Internet server market to Apache, the open source and #1 Internet server in use. In the US 9.7 million servers run IIS (28% of the market) powering 5.3 million .com domains. Delivered as a free add-on for the Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6 is a major upgrade from version 5 with increased security, better .NET programming integration, and stronger abilities to work with non-Microsoft languages and servers. Martin C. Brown develops programming-heavy Web sites for companies such as HP, Oracle, and his own venture Foodware. His primary language includes Basci, Pascal, C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python. He has over a decade of experience managing mixed-platform networks, covering everything from network design through to top-level staff management. Martin helped to start up one of the largest ISPs in the UK and was technical specialist for another. Don Jones has worked with three generations of Microsoft e-Commerce products in production environments. He served as Senior Web Developer for a major "dot com" startup, and currently provides consulting services for clients nationwide.

A highly portable, easily digestible road-map to configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting essential IIS 6.0 features.The book is organized around the 15 "MMCs" (Microsoft Management Consoles) that contain the configuration menus for the essential features. The options within each menu are explained clearly, potential problems are identified up-front, and configurations are subsequently presented in the aptly named "By the Book" section for that MMC. Readers will also appreciate the "Reality Check" sidebars througout, which present valuable cost/benefit analyses of situations where there is no single "right" answer. * A checklist for network engineers and administrators to make sure they have configured you network professionally and responsibily * The information needed by networking professionals responsible for configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Microsoft's Internet Information Server 6.0 * Cleeraly and concisly identifies those features of IIS that represent the highest risk factors for attacks

See why Microsoft Internet Information Server 6 is quickly becoming a force in the Web Server area. Get step-by-step instruction on installing, configuring, maintaining, and administering IIS 6. Troubleshoot the Web Server, learn industry security standards, and cover Virtual Directories and Servers as well as FrontPage Webs, and much more.

This concise, easy-to-use reference to Internet Information Services 5.0 covers the fundamentals, administration, performance, optimization, and maintenance of these essential Internet services. Its easy-to-read tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions make it the portable, fast-answers guide that will consistently save time and energy. (Computer Books)