Internet Information Services 6.0

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Course Overview

Microsoft IIS 6, the Web server for Windows Server 2003, is the platform of choice for business-critical enterprises, ISPs, ISVs and organisations of all sizes. Many features provide the sophistication essential for today's Web server.

In this course, you gain hands-on experience with IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003. You build a highly secure environment, manage application pools and create clusters that provide the environment essential to achieve maximum uptime.

Audience

This course is essential for those interested in implementing secure enterprise Web solutions using IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003. Familiarity with Windows and the Internet is assumed.

Skills Gained

• Configure and manage IIS 6, the Windows Server 2003 Web server
• Administer the IIS 6 architecture for failure protection and health monitoring
• Configure mail, news, media broadcasts and Web content searches
• Construct mega sites and distributed Web services by leveraging the .NET platform
• Publish content with FTP and WebDAV
• Create Web gardens, farms and clusters for scalability and reliability
• Build a secure Web server by enabling advanced security features of IIS 6

Course Outline

IIS 6: The Enterprise Web Server Solutions

• Redesigned for bulletproof security
• Fast, reliable and fault tolerant

Configuring IIS 6

Configuring Web server properties

• The Internet Services Manager (ISM)
• Creating virtual directories
• Customising error messages

Mapping domains to virtual servers

• Creating virtual servers
• Setting up domain name service (DNS)
• Hosting multiple sites with one IP address and host headers
• Exploiting Baseline Security Analyser

Building a Reliable Web Site

Architectural innovations

• HTTP.sys
• W3WP.exe
• WAS
• Multithreading with Web gardens

Failure protection and health monitoring

• Isolating applications with pooling
• Overcoming memory leaks with recycling
• Monitoring Web application health

Metabase and remote administration

• Backing up the XML metabase
• Importing and exporting nodes
• Scripting the creation of Web sites

Performance Tuning and Optimisation

Log file analysis and reporting

• Discovering status and security threats
• Creating detailed usage reports

Identifying performance bottlenecks

• Testing performance limitations
• Tracking memory and processor usage
• Enabling SP1 by editing the Registry

Implementing Complementary Services

Communications services

• Configuring mail, POP3 and news services
• Adding e-mail functionality with code

Media services

• Encoding streaming media files
• Configuring multimedia broadcasting

Indexing services

• Configuring indexing and catalogues
• Enabling search capabilities on your site

Unleashing Unique Hosting Capabilities

Implementing mega sites

• Isolating competing sites and applications
• Auto shutdown of faulty applications

The intranet Web server

• Setting up services for maximum security
• Utilising NAS for Web content
• Enabling Web Single Sign-On with ADFS

Publishing Web Content

Configuring the FTP server

• Mapping FTP sites to Web sites
• Enabling isolated FTP uploads

Uploading Web content with WebDAV

• Manipulating resources with HTTP
• Activating WebDAV clients

Load Balancing and Clustering

Configuring Web gardens and farms

• Setting host and cluster parameters
• Managing session state with IP affinity

Achieving fault tolerance and scalability

• Server and NLB cluster scenarios
• Managing the cluster administrator

Fortifying Web Server Security

IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003 security

• Lessons learned from IIS 5
• Templates and Web server extensions
• Reduced attack surface
• Countermeasures against hacking

Restricting Web site access

• NTFS permissions
• Setting access control through the ISM

Configuring authentication modes

• Passport
• Digest
• Basic
• Anonymous
• Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA)

Encrypting Web pages with SSL

• Installing and configuring certificate services
• Generating your own X.509 Certificates
• Securing your site with SSL encryption

Internet Information Services 6.0 / IIS6