Internet Information Services Administration

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. IIS 4.0 is the first product to use MMC, which will be a standard feature in Windows NT 5.0. Moreover, the new Certificate Server provides X.509 digital certificates for secure communications, which will support the S/MIME secure messaging protocol and the SET protocol to enable secure electronic commerce HYPERLINK /Content/Features/Techno/Ecommerce20/. Also included in the new version of IIS are: a search engine; a news server; the Microsoft Transaction Server for transaction processing, and SiteServer Express, which contains stripped-down versions of log and site analysis applications and tools for publishing directly to a Web site. All of this new functionality is a boon to the administrator, but is overwhelming to the administrator as well. Web security concerns are now paramount and very difficult to manage. Administrators who know IIS from previous versions need a book that will 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. They want to know how to work with the MMC, so that they ll be ready for Windows NT 5.0. This book gives them all of that: a quick read that provides real world solutions, and doubles as a portable reference.