Customer Reviews

Microsoft IIS 5 Administration

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Yeah, great book IF you already know all this stuff. As a technical writer by profession I would use this book as a first draft to begin to create an understandible presentation of IIS. This is filled with ambiguity unless you know IT administration from way back...For example, the author romps through setting up a website using a wizard. Fine. But "hello!" am I supposed to know what the permissions are that I am setting up? For whom? For the website visitor or the FrontPage author, or what??? As it turned out I was locking the pages from editing by any FrontPage users. Great.

Yeah, a fine book for the inner cult. But no concept that someone might be setting up a dedicated server as a "mom and pop" ISP. I finally punted and called Microsoft... We finally figured out the problems and I can guarantee you it was nothing that this book could have helped with... The only thing worse than confusing software is ambiguous technical writing about it!

I bought the book because of the 4.5+ rating on Amazon. But this book is a complete waste of money, it lacks any in-depth stuff needed by a professional, the author does not seem to have the calibre to write something which is really beyond the obvious, all he seems to know is some VB stuff.

I bought this book with hope to undendstand changes came from IIS4, especially Component Services(former MTS) I wondered that this important topic absolutely is not covered in the book, but instead of that a lot of space is wasted for ASP beginners. Very slight book.

Unlike most administration/reference guides, this book is a must for any inspiring IIS 5 administrator, and will serve as a good reference for intermediate/advanced administrators.

The books covers useful things like WebDAV, clustering and replication, performance tuning, administration scripts, programming with ADSI, and security.

The appendixes serve as a good reference for administration scripting.

I was new to IIS and this was a great start for me. I got this right when 6 was about to come out. Really gave me a great base.

I have to agree with the comments concerning the superficiality of this book. If you understand what the author is discussing then you don't need this book except perhaps as a reference. If you don't understand the topic there is very little explanation that will help you. Please be aware that the author is extremely MS biased and works entirely in Front Page and VBscript. Statements like "...there are a plethora of hackers who are continuously trying to discredit Microsoft and its products..." (p148) are deplorable.