Checklist: IIS Administration Tools and Tasks

Check off each of the IIS administration tools in this list as you gain familiarity with their deployment, configuration, and use:

• IIS Manager console

• Application Server console

• Computer Management console

• Custom MMC console with Internet Information Services snap-in

• Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack

• Remote Desktop Connection

• Remote Desktop Web Connection

• Remote Administration (HTML)

Check off each of the following general IIS administration tasks as you become familiar with performing them using the IIS Manager console:

• Connecting to a remote IIS machine

• Backing up the metabase and schema

• Restarting IIS

• Enabling/disabling automatic restart of the IIS Admin service

• Saving IIS configuration changes to disk

• Enabling direct metabase edit

• Enabling UTF-8 logging

• Viewing and modifying the global MIME map

• Installing IIS Manager on a Windows .NET member server not running IIS

• Enabling Remote Desktop on a Windows .NET Server

• Installing the Remote Desktop Web Connection component on an IIS machine

• Installing the Remote Administration (HTML) component on an IIS machine