Managing the Migration Process

Standards

Another area to assess is system operations standards, which usually take the form of policies and procedures. You might want to review and update your existing standards with reference to IIS 5.0. To help conduct a standards review, you can use the “Standards Review Form” found in the Standard.doc file on the Resource Kit companion CD.

Table 2.6 shows some issues to consider when reviewing standards and policies:

Table 2.6 Policy and Procedure Review

Policy/Procedure	More Information	Issues
Content Publishing	IIS 5.0 online product documentation	General guidelines on issues such as consistency in page formatting and style. Instructions on how to publish a Web page served by IIS 5.0, and directory access policies for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV).
Disaster Recovery	Capacity Planning in this book	Recovery plans. Off-site or on-site spare server location. Spare server availability. Rehearsal provisions.
Internet Services	Security in this book	The person to contact for each service. Access control.
Maintenance	Monitoring and Tuning Your Server in this book	Preventative maintenance procedures. System monitoring policy and tools.
Netiquette		Guidelines for appropriate network and e-mail use.
Network	Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Resource Kit TCP/IP Core Networking Guide	Escalation procedures for downed links. Contacts for network services.
Redundant Servers	Administering an ISP Installation in this book	Fault-tolerant servers. Load-balancing servers.
Security	Security in this book	Password length and expiration period. Logon policies and auditing. Intruder prevention processes. Ownership/responsibility for user accounts. Methods for key encryption.