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Internet Information Services 6 for Windows Server® 2003: Hands-On

Course: 566   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 5 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Configure and manage IIS 6, the Windows Server 2003 Web server
  • Administer the IIS 6 architecture for failure protection and health monitoring
  • 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 Benefits
Microsoft IIS 6, the Web server for Windows Server 2003, provides a solid platform for business-critical enterprises, ISPs, ISVs and organisations of all sizes. 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.

Who Should Attend
Web developers, administrators, project managers and others interested in implementing secure enterprise Web solutions using IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003. Familiarity with Windows and the Internet is assumed.

Hands-on Training
Hands-on experience implementing enterprise Web sites with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 is provided throughout this course. Exercises include:
  • Installing and administering Web sites and the metabase with the ISM
  • Creating a full-featured platform with mail, media and search services
  • Publishing with FTP and WebDAV
  • Creating Web farms, gardens and load-balancing clusters
  • Securing a Web site with certificates, authentication and encryption

Course Content
IIS 6: The Enterprise Web Server Solution
  • Redesigned for bulletproof security
  • Fast, reliable and fault tolerant
Configuring IIS 6
Configuring Web server properties
  • The Internet Services Manager (ISM)
  • Creating virtual directories
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 Complimentary Services
Communications services
  • Configuring mail, POP3 and news services
  • Adding e-mail functionality with code
Indexing services
  • Configuring indexing and catalogues
  • Enabling search capabilities on your site
Unleashing Unique Hosting Capabilities
  • Isolating competing sites and applications
  • Auto shutdown of faulty applications
  • Installing additional programming
  • Setting up services for maximum security on the Intranet Web server
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
  • Reduced attack surface
  • Templates and Web server extensions
  • 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
Looking Ahead to IIS 7.0
  • Exploring the new administrative interface
  • Taking a look at the all modular components
  • Integrating with the .NET framework

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