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Access Denied messages, 17

Active Directory, integration with, 12

Active Directory Services Interface, 329, 359

Active LogView, 440

Active Server Pages. See ASP

ActivePerl, 241

Admin Service. See IIS Admin Service

administration methods, 142

comparison of, 168–169

Remote Desktop, 158–165

Remote Desktop Web Connection, 165–167

Web Server Edition, 172–173

Windows .NET Administration Tools Pack, 156–158

See also command-line administration; IIS Manager; Remote Administration (HTML)

ADSI. See Active Directory Services Interface

Adsutil, 359

Advanced Digest Authentication, 292

See also Digest Authentication

Analog, 440

anonymous access, 284–285

enabling for FTP sites, 286–288

enabling for websites, 285–286

NNTP, 545

SMTP, 526

Application Dependencies, 358

application isolation modes

availability of, 53

comparison of, 52–54

IIS 5 isolation mode, 50–52

planning issues, 96

switching, 53–54

worker process isolation mode, 48–50

application mapping, 238–240

application pool identities, 306–307

configuring custom, 308–310

selecting, 307–308

verifying, 310–311

Application Pool Manager, 40

See also Web Administration Service

application pools, 42–47, 228–233

assigning applications to, 232–233

creating, 231–232

default, 230–231

tuning, 364–373

and worker processes, 230

application security

ASP security, 313

configuring application pool identities, 306–311

configuring execute permissions, 305–306

configuring Web Service Extensions, 302–305

parent paths, 311–312

applications

listing running applications, 358–359

sample web applications, 95–96

tuning tips, 388–390

writing high-performance applications, 390

architecture

64-bit, 55

evolution of, 26–34

IIS 4, 28–32

IIS 5, 32–34

prior to IIS 4, 26–28

version 6 improvements, 13–15

ASP, 9, 218

buffering, 389

caching, 55

counters, 395

error messages, 443

example, 218–219

logging events, 441

new features in IIS 6, 219

resources, 220

security, 313

working with, 242

ASP.NET, 105, 220–221

application configuration options, 240–241

application mapping, 238–240

application pools, 228–233

application starting points, 236

applications and virtual directories, 237

configuring applications, 237–241

creating an application from an existing website, 236

creating applications, 233–237

creating a root-level application, 233–235

debugging, 241

example, 221–222

installation, 95, 227

removing applications, 235–236

renaming applications, 235

running in IIS 5 isolation mode, 227

unloading applications, 237

using the default application, 227–228, 229

auditpol, 359

authentication, 282

Advanced Digest Authentication, 292

anonymous access, 284–288

Basic Authentication, 7, 293–294

combining with permissions, 298–299

configuring methods, 283–284

Digest Authentication, 17, 291–292

Integrated Windows Authentication, 288–291

.NET Passport Authentication, 294–298

order of, 286

SMTP, 525–530

summary of methods, 298