Reliability and Performance

1. Reliability and Performance • Application protection • IIS Reliable Restart • Socket pooling • Multisite hosting • Process throttling • Bandwidth throttling

2. Setup and Upgrade Integration • The setup process of IIS is integrated with the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server setup process. • IIS creates the Default Web Site, the Administration Web Site, and the Default SMTP Virtual Server.

3. Internet Information Services Snap-In

4. Internet Services Manager (HTML)

5. Delegated Administration • Members of the Operators group have limited administration privileges on Web sites. • Operators can administer properties that affect only their respective sites. • Operators do not have access to properties that affect IIS, the Windows server hosting IIS, or the network.

6. Process Accounting

7. Command-Line Administration Scripts • IIS ships with scripts that can be executed from the command line to automate the management of common Web server tasks. • You can create custom scripts that automate the management of IIS. • Windows Script Host (WSH) is used to run the .vbs scripts.

8. Backing Up and Restoring IIS

9. Custom Error Messages • You can use the custom error messages that IIS provides, or you can create your own. • The custom error messages are stored in the %systemroot%\Help\iisHelp\common folder.

10. FrontPage Server Extensions • You can use Microsoft FrontPage Web authoring and management features to deploy and manage Web sites. • FrontPage Web is enabled by default. • The FrontPage Server Extensions snap-in includes two setup features that are important for initially configuring and checking the extensions. • You can use the Internet Information Services snap-in to configure an existing Web server for server extensions.

11. Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning • IIS supports Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). • WebDAV allows users to share documents over the Internet or an intranet.

12. Distributed File System (Dfs) • IIS can use Dfs. • You can make files that are distributed across multiple servers appear to users as if they reside in one place.

13. HTTP Compression • HTTP compression allows faster transmission of pages between a Web server and compression-enabled clients. • You can use the Internet Information Services snap-in to enable HTTP compression. • You can use the Internet Services Manager (HTML) tool to enable HTTP compression.

14. Internet Information Services Snap-In

15. Internet Services Manager (HTML)

16. FTP and FTP Restart • The FTP service is integrated into Windows 2000 Server. • Windows 2000 supports the FTP Restart protocol.

17. Security • Security features take advantage of the Internet-standard security features that are fully integrated in Windows 2000. • IIS supports a number of security protocols. • IIS uses five basic security mechanisms. • IIS includes three new security task wizards.

18. Web Server Certificate Wizard

19. Permissions Wizard

20. Permissions Wizard

21. Certificate Trust List Wizard

22. Application Environment • Overview of Active Server Pages (ASP) • Component Services (COM+) • Active Directory services

23. Installing IIS 5.0 • IIS is a component of Windows 2000. • Installation and removal of IIS is accomplished in one of three ways. • When a clean installation of Windows 2000 Server is performed, IIS is installed by default. • When an upgrade is performed, IIS is installed if another version of IIS, Peer Web Services, or Personal Web Server is detected.

24. Setting Up a Web Environment • You should set up your Web sites by indicating which folders contain the documents that you want to publish. • You do not have to create a special folder structure to publish documents immediately. • Intranet users can access files in the default home folder.

25. Defining Home Directories

26. Creating Virtual Directories

27. Reroute Requests with Redirects • If you move a page on a Web site, you can instruct the Web server to give the browser the new URL. • Redirecting a URL is useful when you want to make a portion of your site unavailable or when you have changed the name of a virtual directory. • You can use the Internet Information Services snap-in to redirect requests to a Web site, a virtual directory, or another directory.

28. Other IIS Tools • Server-side includes (SSI) allow you to perform a number of Web site management activities. • SSI commands are added to Web pages at design time. • ASP is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to dynamically alter Web content. • Unlike SSI, ASP requires you to use a scripting language such as VBScript or JScript.

29. Scripting • A script is a series of instructions and commands that you can use to programmatically alter the content of your Web pages. • There are two kinds of scripting: client-side and server-side.

30. ASP • You can create a server-side script to automatically perform difficult or repetitious Web management tasks. • ASP is a powerful, server-side scripting environment that you can use to write scripts with only a standard text editor. • ASP uses delimiters to differentiate script commands from regular text and HTML. • All ASP files must have an .asp extension and contain script commands written in a scripting language such as VBScript or JScript.

31. Web Sites and FTP Sites

32. Properties and Inheritance of Properties

33. WWW Service Master Properties

34. Operators Group • Operators are a special group of users who have limited administrative privileges on individual Web sites. • Operators can administer properties that affect only their respective sites. • Operators do not have access to properties that affect IIS, the Windows server hosting IIS, or the network. • Distributed server administration has several advantages.

35. Administering Sites Remotely • If you are connecting to your server over the Internet or through a proxy server, you can use the Internet Services Manager (HTML) tool to change properties. • If you are on an intranet, you can use the Internet Information Services snap-in or the Internet Services Manager (HTML) tool to change properties. • Internet Services Manager (HTML) uses the Administration Web site to access IIS properties. • You can use Terminal Services over a network connection to administer IIS. • IIS documentation is available when you are performing remote administration tasks.

36. FTP Restart • FTP Restart addresses the problem of losing a network connection while downloading files. • Clients that support FTP Restart need only reestablish their FTP connection, and the file transfer automatically picks up where it left off.

37. Managing Sites • Starting and stopping sites • Adding sites • Naming Web sites • Stopping, starting, restarting, or rebooting in IIS

38. Restarting Internet Services

39. Backing Up and Restoring IIS • You can use the Internet Information Services snap-in to back up your IIS configuration. • You can restore only your IIS settings, not the content files. • You can use the Internet Information Services snap-in to restore your IIS configuration.

40. Managing WebDAV Publishing • WebDAV allows clients to perform a number of tasks. • Windows 2000 connects to a WebDAV server through the Add Network Place wizard. • Once connected to a WebDAV directory, you can quickly search the files on that directory for content as well as properties. • WebDAV security is integrated with Windows 2000 and IIS.

41. Creating a Publishing Directory • To set up a publishing directory, create a physical directory below Inetpub. • You can put the directory anywhere except under Wwwroot. • You can create a new Web site or use an existing site and then create a virtual directory beneath it. • You are granting users the right to publish documents on this virtual directory and see a list of the files in it.

42. Managing WebDAV Security

43. Telnet Service • Windows 2000 Telnet service allows users of a Telnet client to connect to the computer running the Telnet service. • The Telnet service acts as a gateway for Telnet clients to communicate with each other. • Two Telnet service connection licenses are provided with each installation of Windows 2000 Server. • You can use your local Windows 2000 user name and password or domain account information to access the Telnet server.

44. Starting and Stopping Telnet Server

45. Telnet Server Admin Utility

46. Troubleshooting • Invalid input • Failed to open the registry key • Failed to query the registry value

47. Telnet Client • You can use Microsoft Telnet Client to connect to a remote computer running the Telnet service. • Once you have made the connection, you can communicate with the server. • The Telnet client uses the Telnet protocol, which is part of the TCP/IP suite of protocols. • Microsoft Telnet Client is now a command-line application rather than a Windows application. • Microsoft Telnet Client provides NTLM authentication support.

48. Using Telnet • You can open Telnet in two ways. • To use Telnet, you must have TCP/IP installed and configured on your computer and you must have a user account established on the remote host. • To display help for Telnet, type help at the Microsoft Telnet command prompt.

49. Introduction to Terminal Services • Terminal Services enables all client application execution, data processing, and data storage to occur on the server. • The terminal emulation software sends keystrokes and mouse movements to the server. • Users can gain access to Terminal Services over any TCP/IP connection. • Terminal Services provides remote administration of network resources. • You can enable Terminal Services in one of two modes: Remote Administration or Application Server.

50. Remote Administration • Remote Administration allows administrators to remotely administer each Windows 2000 Server computer over any TCP/IP connection. • Remote Administration mode installs only the remote access components of Terminal Services.