IIS 6 Administration (Paperback)

by Mitch Tulloch (Author)

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Product Description
Author Mitch Tulloch, MCT, MCSE, skillfully guides readers through the administration of Web service, security, application pools, performance, and much more. Learn valuable configuration, maintenance, and content management techniques, manage the FTP, SMTP, and NNTP services, and easily troubleshoot documentation and content development issues.

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Your one-stop IIS 6 administration resource

This practical, task-orientated guide explains exactly what you need to know in order to deploy, configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Internet Information Services 6 (IIS 6) on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform. Author Mitch Tulloch skillfully details essential day-to-day administration tasks and includes dozens of invaluable troubleshooting tips, making this reference the ultimate guide for systems and network administrators. IIS 6 Administration contains numerous helpful editorial tools including task-at-a-glance guides, step-by-step instructions, screen shots and illustrations, and highlighted notes and tips. Plus, there are extensive troubleshooting sections for solving common problems.

• Discover the increased security, reliability, scalability, performance, and manageability of IIS 6
• Get an in-depth examination of the internal workings and architecture of IIS 6
• Learn valuable configuration, maintenance, and content management techniques
• Deploy IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003 in a variety of different situations
• Learn how to administer IIS from the command line using scripts
• Create and configure Web sites, and use virtual directories for hosting site content
• Deploy applications using ASP, ASP.NET, ISAPI, and legacy CGI architectures
• Monitor and tune IIS 6 performance, and learn vital troubleshooting techniques
• Administer IIS 6 on Standard, Enterprise, and Web Edition

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; International Student edition (April 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072194855
• ISBN-13: 978-0072194852
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #305,199 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IIS6 - Will this book help you?, June 19, 2003

By	Chris Crowe (Christchurch, New Zealand.) - See all my reviews

I have enjoyed Mitch's writing style since I found his Administering IIS 4 book here on Amazon.com. He writes in such a way that technical books are very easy to comprehend and everything flows with the right amount of screen snaps.

He has covered a lot in this book which includes a very detailed section on how to install both Windows 2003 and IIS using a lot of different methods which works well if you have one server to a farm of 100's of servers.

The standard things you would expect from an IIS book are here, creating sites and virtual directories and these are explained clearly and concisely. A chapter is included on securing IIS which covers NTFS file and directory permissions and how these integrate with the IIS permissions. He also explains the different IIS authentication methods and application pool identities, and SSL.

There is some very good information Performance tuning and monitoring and a good section on the IIS Metabase (IIS configuration now in XML) and how to interface with it from the command line using ADSI and WMI Scripts.

Overall I think that this book would help anyone who has to work on an IIS server and even if you have administered IIS before you will get value from it. I would rate it 4.5 stars but since I can not I will give it 5 stars. Level Basic to Intermediate

Chris Crowe...

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mitch Does it again!!!, May 28, 2003

By	"adsi4nt" (Dayton, Oh) - See all my reviews

Mitch does it again, every book he puts out just gets better and better and this book has it all! Having worked with IIS for over 4 years I didn't expect to lean much (we all know it all don't we?).... I was wrong! This book has ranges from Screen Cap's and diagrams to a full break down of the metabase, NTFS permissions needed and even the dreaded Front Page extensions. If you are new to IIS or have been around the block, this book is a definite must have for the work bench!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, August 18, 2005

By	Shaun Ware (Sydney NSW) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We bought this book for our Systems Administrator who had limited IIS experience. After a few days he had the website and ftp site humming. Worth a look for the novice through to the expert.