Overview
Provides focused coverage of IIS2 and NT4.Who is this book for?
IT Professionals who have been given the task of setting up and administering an IIS site, or who are thinking about it.
What does it cover?
Starts with a brief synopsis of the technologies involved, before moving on to installation and configuration concerns. Security is covered next, with discussions of how to restrict access, how to spot attacks, and how to set up your users and groups correctly. Performance monitoring is also covered, with a look at what the numbers mean, and how to fix poor performance quickly. Next is log file analysis, and then a discussion of load balancing, and the issues involved with distributing a site across multiple machines.
What's special about this book?
The author specializes in client/server technology, and is a core beta tester for IIS. The book shows administrators what they'll have to think about, above and beyond simple installation and configuration concerns.|TOC: A High-level Look at IIS
The Server: Operating System and Hardware
Installing IIS
Configuring IIS
IIS and the Registry
Security
Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting
SQL Performance Monitoring
Logging and Analysis
Multi-homing and Load Balancing|AUTHORBIO: Christian Gross is the Chief Software Architect for CIS Consultants based in Switzerland. His clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Union Bank of Switzerland, National Westminister Bank of England, Standard Life, and NCR. His forte is applying client/server, object technology to the development of Web Sites using Sun Technology and Microsoft Products. He studied Engineering at the University of Waterloo specializing in Parallel processors and Artificial Intelligence. He is currently working on several on-line banking projects in Zurich. CIS Consultants is an Internet Partner with Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Clubwin. Christian's technical interests include 3-D graphics, software engineering, Java, C++ development, wide area client/server systems. He can be reached on CompuServe at 70324,1777.
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