Introduction
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This book contains the following material:
Overview of Internet Information Services 5.0 introduces the new features of IIS 5.0, and gives an overview of the product’s architecture.
Managing the Migration Process is the first of two sections about migrating to IIS. It provides general and conceptual information about planning and managing the migration process, when it involves multiple servers on an enterprise network.
Migrating a Web Server to IIS 5.0 provides instructions on migrating configuration settings, content, and applications to IIS 5.0 from another Web server, including UNIX-based Web servers. In addition, the section discusses upgrading IIS 4.0 to IIS 5.0, replicating an IIS 5.0 Web server, and using the IIS Migration Wizard. It also covers several approaches for migrating a Web application to IIS.
Capacity Planning discusses issues involved in planning Web server installations, such as what equipment and software to acquire for Web sites. It also provides ways to determine where bottlenecks are likely to occur, and shows how much network bandwidth you will need.
Monitoring and Tuning Your Server discusses issues involved in optimizing and tuning your IIS-based Web server, and covers some of the tools you can use for accomplishing these goals. It also provides some guidelines to help your server recover from bottlenecks.
Developing Web Applications presents the features and benefits of the underlying technology in IIS 5.0, stressing the important functionality that can be obtained by creating Web applications.
Data Access and Transactions introduces key components of Web data access, and discusses how to harness the power of a data-driven approach for Web content publishing.
Administering an ISP Installation is a guide to running and maintaining an Internet service provider (ISP) installation in the context of Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and IIS 5.0.
Security addresses how to configure a secure Web server that is running Windows 2000 Server and IIS 5.0, for use on the Internet or on an intranet.
Access to Legacy Applications and Data discusses using the Web to make legacy data and applications easily accessible (via the Internet or a company intranet) to customers and members of the internal organization who use Web browsers. This section also describes how you can use IIS 5.0 for efficient utilization of legacy data and applications in Web solutions.
ASP Best Practices is an intranet standards planning guide that provides corporate guidelines for Active Server Pages (ASP) usage.
Site Security Planning describes how to set policies for securing Web resources, applications, and data in a company intranet. It also demonstrates, through scenarios, how to use IIS 5.0 in order to secure communications over the Internet, including e-commerce applications.
Glossary of Internet-related terms used in this book.