BackCover | IIS 6: The Complete Reference

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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 IIS 6, 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 using 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 that 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

About the Authors

Hethe Henrickson, MCSE, CCNA, A+, has been a professional Windows Server administrator since 1997. He taught Windows NT and Windows 2000 MCSE at National American University, and has been a columnist for swynk.com.

Scott Hofmann is the development manager at Internet Operations Center in Southfield, MI. He has been involved in more than a dozen significant enterprise Web application efforts, including ownerconnection.com and rapportnet.Com.