Internet Information Server Black Book (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

-- This book is a comprehensive guide to IIS 5 and discusses the features that make IIS 5 one of the most powerful tools for Web-centric and Web-enabled applications development and deployment.
-- Provides information on new features of IIS 5 including enhanced scalability of IIS 5, support for more memory, and dramatically improved performance for ASP.
-- Discusses in-depth of the enhanced ability for hosting multiple sites on a single IP address available in this version of IIS.
-- Written in the popular Black Book format, this book provides practical, immediate solutions to help IT professionals understand how to deliver better business solutions using IIS 5 features and capabilities.
-- Written by the author of many articles and books on Windows technologies including the Exchange Server 2000 Black Book (Coriolis ISBN 1-57610-641-1).
-- Addresses understanding web servers, network components and protocols, and connectivity as well as an overview of IIS 5 and more detail on the architecture of IIS 5 relative to Windows 2000.
-- Analysis of planning for the implementation of IIS 5 is provided including understanding the strategies and requirements of installation.
-- Includes a section focused on installation, avoiding errors, checking configuration, options, and thoroughly testing an IIS installation.
-- Divulges key information on configuring IIS 5 network and service components using management applets, setting up the database interface and more.
-- Tackles setting up security in IIS, access control, kerberos authentication, login and auditing procedures and setting up a database connector.
-- Performance tuning, tools, troubleshooting and IIS extendedresources, such as using MS FrontPage, are covered as well as taking advantage of ISAPI with IIS and more.