Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

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

Chapter 1. Before you begin
Chapter 2. Deploying the web server
Chapter 3. Exploring and launching a website
Chapter 4. Managing application pools
Chapter 5. Adding more websites to your server
Chapter 6. What every administrator should know about web applications
Chapter 7. Securing your sites and web applications
Chapter 8. Securing the server
Chapter 9. Protecting data with certificates
Chapter 10. FTP and SMTP with IIS
Chapter 11. Sharing administrative responsibilities through remote management
Chapter 12. Optimizing sites for users and search engines
Chapter 13. Building a web farm with Microsoft Network Load Balancing
Chapter 14. Building a web farm with Application Request Routing
Chapter 15. High availability for ARR using Microsoft NLB
Chapter 16. Sharing content and configuration to the web farm
Chapter 17. Sharing IIS configurations for a web farm
Chapter 18. Using the central certificate store for certificate management
Chapter 19. Web farm provisioning with the Web Farm Framework
Chapter 20. Disaster recovery for IIS
Chapter 21. The final exam
Chapter 22. Never the end
Chapter 23. IIS PowerShell cheat sheet
Chapter 24. Lab setup guide