Part IV: Performance, Optimization, and Maintenance

Chapter List

Chapter 13: Performance Tuning and Monitoring

Chapter 14: Tracking User Access and Logging

Chapter 15: IIS Optimization and the Metabase

Chapter 16: IIS Backup & Recovery

Part Overview

Part IV covers administration tasks you’ll use to enhance and maintain Internet Information Services (IIS). Chapter 13 provides the essentials for monitoring IIS and solving performance problems related to the operating system and hardware configuration. Chapter 14 provides an essential background on IIS logs and then details how to configure server logs. Chapter 15 explores IIS optimization. You’ll learn how to update registry settings for IIS and how to work with the IIS metabase. Chapter 16, the final chapter, discusses procedures for backing up and recovering the IIS configuration. Standard system backup procedures are examined as well.