IIS 6: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

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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.

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The Definitive Resource on IIS 6

Administer and program IIS 6 using ASP, COM, ASP.NET, ATL Server, and ISAPI

Deploy, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot IIS 6, Microsoft's suite of applications integrated at the operating system level. This useful guide will bring you up-to-speed on the new features in IIS 6 and help you administer Web sites, application pools, the metabase, security, and much more. Navigate the new and improved architecture. Discover increased security, reliability, scalability, performance, and manageability. Create and configure Web sites, and use virtual directories for hosting site content. Learn how to use current Microsoft Web application technologies and discover how they compare architecturally. Administer IIS 6, build Web applications to run on IIS6, and use the tools for producing Microsoft-centric Web applications--Visual Studio 6, Interdev 6, and Visual Studio .NET.

• Integrate with the Internet and port internal applications to the Web
• Discover how to use all of the new security features in IIS 6
• Configure IIS 6 on the latest Microsoft Server platform using the latest scripts and applets
• Add Internet capabilities that weave directly into your infrastructure
• Learn to administer IIS 6 and build Web applications running on IIS 6
• Incorporate industry security standards and address Web Server security issues
• Administer WWW, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and Certificate Services
• Monitor and tune IIS, and run high-performance applications
• Apply valuable configuration, maintenance, and content management techniques
• Build Web applications using VBScript in ASP, Visual Basic in COM, C# in ASP.NET, C++ in ATL Server, and C++ in ISAPI

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Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (May 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072224959
• ISBN-13: 978-0072224955
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #127,232 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not completely complete, but pretty good, May 1, 2004

By	Rennie Petersen (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I haven't read all of this book yet, and I probably never will, considering that some of the chapters are irrelevant once you've decided on which programming platform you are going to use. But what I've read so far I like.

This book is somewhat unusual in that it discusses two normally separate topics: setting up and administering IIS 6.0, and basic server-side programming techniques.

Concerning the part about setting up IIS, I was pleased to discover that the book also includes some very useful information about how Windows Server 2003 should be installed and set up to ensure good basic security. I've read two other books about IIS 6.0 and neither of them had this kind of material.

My one quibble is the lack of information about how to set up an FTP server for use in uploading and maintaining the content of a web site. OK, I know that FTP is an obsolete technology for doing this, but still, it is the traditional method, so a simple example showing the best way of doing this would have been nice. (On the other hand, the two other books I've read about IIS 6.0 didn't cover this either, although one of them included enough information to allow the proper technique to be figured out.)

Turning to the server-side programming part, there are examples of simple applications using the following technologies: ASP, COM, ASP.NET, ATL and ISAPI. The book does not include a CD-ROM but one of the authors has a web site from which you can download all of the sample files, 19 MB in all.

Two final criticisms: There is no mention of possible alternative programming platforms such as Perl, PHP, MySQL, etc., and where to find them. And some of the screen shots have a resolution that makes the text almost impossible to read.

In conclusion, if you're involved in both setting up an IIS 6.0 web server and in creating a web site to run on it then you'll find this book very useful.

Rennie Petersen