Overview of Internet Information Services 5.0

Architecture Overview

IIS 5.0 is a service of Windows 2000 Server, which means that it is designed to work closely with many other services that run on Windows 2000 Server. The following figure shows the relationship between IIS 5.0 and other services you can install on Windows 2000 Server.

The standard Internet services (Web and FTP servers) reside in a process called Inetinfo. In addition to these Internet services, this process contains the shared thread pool, cache, and logging services of IIS 5.0.

By sharing the same security model (user accounts) as Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0 eliminates the need for additional user-account administration. IIS 5.0 administration also borrows existing Windows 2000 Server tools such as System Monitor, Event Viewer, and MMC to conduct similar administrative procedures.

The following sections describe the Windows 2000 tools that are tightly integrated with IIS 5.0:

• Microsoft Management Console
• Active Server Pages and Microsoft Script Debugger
• Indexing Service
• Certificate Services
• Message Queuing
• Database Access Component

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