Written for students studying Web server administrations, as well as for first-time IIS administrators and Web hosting company operators, Internet Information Services Administration highlights the best practices for running IIS in small- and large-scale environments and explains when and why to use specific options. It deals with such practical concerns as installing and managing IIS, integrating IIS with Windows 2000 security options, customizing Web sites and the FTP service, running Web applications, connecting to databases, and managing log files. Its real-world recommendations make this book an invaluable resource to those upgrading or migrating to IIS 5 in a corporate or educational environment.

1. Installing and Managing IIS.

Windows NT  [PTG: SAMS]   (Computer Science)

Kelli Adam is currently the president and principal consultant of ConnectOS Corporation, the network consulting and Internet services firm she founded in 1995 near Redmond, Washington. She became a Microsoft Certified Professional in 1991 and went on to attain status as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Plus Internet. Kelli participated in writing Microsoft certification exams on Internet Information Server, Networking Essentials, Internet Explorer Administration Kit, Proxy Server, and SNA Server. She also coauthored MCSE Training Guide: TCP/IP, Second Edition, by New Riders Publishing (1-56205-920-3). Kelli taught the Microsoft train-the-trainer course on Internet Information Server in both the United States and Japan, and Proxy Server in Japan.

Most recently, Kelli was honored as one of the Top 40 executives under the age of 40 in her area. Still, she finds time to spend with her two house bunnies; her husband, Daniel; and her 1-year-old son, Nicolas. But, lately she has not found as much time to enjoy SCUBA diving, wine collecting, boating or private pilot lessons. Kelli can be reached at KelliA@ConnectOS.com.

Lisa Stanley, MCP, is a technical engineer at ConnectOS Corporation who is responsible for technical administration of Web, SQL, and Windows Media Technology servers. Lisa's background and experience has evolved from being an intern with an associate's degree in information technology into playing an integral role in the technical success of ConnectOS. She enjoys science fiction books and movies, as well as various arts and crafts.

Administrators who know IIS from previous versions need this book to show them in concrete detail how to configure the new protocols, authenticate users with the new Certificate Server, and implement and manage the new e-commerce features. You want to know how to work with the MMC, so that you'll be ready for Windows NT 5.0. This book gives you all of that: a quick read that provides real world solutions, and doubles as a portable reference. Although IIS has been available for several years now, version 4.0 of the Internet Information Server marks a major change in Microsoft's approach to Enterprise Web Service. The brand new feature set in IIS 4.0 reads like a wish list of hot Internet technologies. Administration of IIS has been overhauled by the integration of the Microsoft Management Console and is the first product to use MMC.

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