| After you've decided which IIS services to install, you'll need to log on as Administrator or as a Computer Administrator user. Then follow these steps: 1. | Click Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Select Add/Remove Windows Components from the left pane.
| 2. | Scroll down the Components list and check Internet Information Services (IIS). Click Details, and deselect any components you have chosen not to install. The following list provides some recommendations for installing IIS:
Component | Should You Install? |
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Common Files | required | Documentation | yes | File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server | probably not | FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions | yes | Internet Information Services Snap-In | yes | SMTP Service | optional | Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment | optional | World Wide Web Service | required |
If you select World Wide Web Service and click Details, you can make additional selections:
Component | Should You Install? |
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Printers virtual directory | yes | Remote Desktop Web Connection | yes | Scripts Virtual Directory | optional | World Wide Web Service | required |
If you change your mind about using any of these services, you can always select Add or Remove Windows Components again later on.
NOTE If you had FrontPage Extensions installed under an earlier version of Windows that you upgraded to Windows XP, you must still manually choose to install the FrontPage Extensions, and reconfigure them afterward. They are not automatically upgraded and configured. | 3. | If you want to search the IIS online documentation or want to use site-searching for your own content, be sure that the Indexing Service is also installed. It's listed just above Internet Information Services in the Windows component list.
| 4. | When you've selected all of the desired IIS components, click Next to complete the Windows Components Wizard. You may be asked to insert your Windows XP Installation CD-ROM.
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When the installation procedure is finishedand this is the most important stepclick Start, All Programs, Windows Update, and have Windows Update install any available critical security fixes for IIS. If you want to use the site-searching capabilities of the Windows Indexing service, you'll need to enable the service by following these steps: 1. | Click Start, right-click My Computer, and select Manage.
| 2. | Open Services and Applications.
| 3. | Right-click Indexing Service.
| 4. | Select Start.
| 5. | When Windows asks if you want the service to start automatically, click Yes.
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The Indexing Service builds a database of its default content directories, which include the IIS online documentation and your Web site's home and virtual directories. (It also indexes your own Documents and Settings folder but doesn't make this information available to Internet visitors.) The indexing process will take several minutes, during which you can tour the major components of IIS. |
