Summary

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Even if you have no prior exposure to IIS, you can follow the crisp explanations, examples, and exercises in this concise, easy-to-read book. Just set aside one hour a day-lunchtime would be perfect-for a month, and you'll be managing, securing, and automating IIS administrative tasks faster than you thought possible.

About this Book

When your website slows to a crawl or Exchange stops sending internet mail, you have to get things working again. Fast. IIS is the communication gateway for most Microsoft servers as well as the primary technology for publishing web sites. Learning to manage it effectively means you can keep your systems running smoothly and go home on time.

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Follow the crisp explanations, examples, and exercises in this concise, easy-to-read book, and you'll be managing, securing, and automating IIS faster than you thought possible. You'll start with IIS fundamentals, and then systematically explore web farm design, website management, and high availability, along with practices to keep your Exchange, SharePoint, System Center, and Lync servers running smoothly.

Written for anyone who needs to manage IIS, whether you're an IT pro or a reluctant administrator.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

24 bite-sized lessons with practice examples

High-value troubleshooting techniques

No previous IIS experience assumed

About the Author Jason Helmick is a professional trainer and consultant specializing in Active Directory and IIS. He's the founder of the Arizona PowerShell User Group.

Table of Contents

Before you begin

Deploying the web server

Exploring and launching a website

Managing application pools

Adding more websites to your server

What every administrator should know about web applications

Securing your sites and web applications

Securing the server

Protecting data with certificates

FTP and SMTP with IIS

Sharing administrative responsibilities through remote management

Optimizing sites for users and search engines

Building a web farm with Microsoft Network Load Balancing

Building a web farm with Application Request Routing

High availability for ARR using Microsoft NLB

Sharing content and configuration to the web farm

Sharing IIS configurations for a web farm

Using the central certificate store for certificate management

Web farm provisioning with the Web Farm Framework

Disaster recovery for IIS

The final exam

Never the end

IIS PowerShell cheat sheet

Lab setup guide