Customer Reviews

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4: the Complete Reference

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This book talks in general about everything! NT Domains, TCP/IP, Networking, and so on. I kept looking for information on IIS and was hard pressed to find it. If you are looking for a book ABOUT IIS, and not Everthing about Windows NT, then look elsewhere...

Has many screens from NT 3.x (which can't exist when IIS4 is installed on a machine as it only works with NT4). Hardly covers IIS4 at all, just lots and lots and lots of very general information that can be found in beginning Internet and NT books elsewhere. I was offended by the low quality of this book.

This book is one of my favorite references. I don't think that any book could contain everything you need to know about IIS, but this one comes close. I found that it provides great security coverage. The usage information is also easy to understand. About the only area that's completely lacking is performance tuning information. I'd also like to see how to create complex Web site setups (this book seems to concentrate on sites of simple or moderate complexity). The author is also very friendly and helped me with questions I had in some areas of the book.

This book solved problems I was having with configuring IIS 4.0 for months. It clearly talks about security and how to setup a web site from the ground up. It also talks about FTP access and how to protect areas of your server while giving access to the correct users. Excellent!

I teach Microsoft networking and have been charged with learning IIS. I need to know the Why's and the details of IIS, and this book didn't do it. It hits many areas in general overview, but then spends CHAPTERS talking about general NT topics (backup/restore, domain authentication, fault tolerance, etc). Not recommended unless you want overview-level only.

In trying to include all the concerns involved in setting up a website -- especially content creation and development -- the authors left many key areas specified in the 70-87 exam prep guide inadequately addressed. Discussion of the seven basic services provided with IIS, other than the basic WWW service, is very shallow.

The basic information on NT Server design and setup also seems too general to address specific hardware selection concerns.

Really the complete reference about IIS 4.0 and NT 4.0. Every webmaster should have it in his desktop.

This book is the most complete reference to Internet Information Server 4.0 that I have seen. It explains more than just IIS, but on NT, TCP/IP, Netbios, etc. A must have for any IIS user.