Practical IIS

Internet Information Services in the Data Center and the Cloud
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4302-5965-7
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Practical IIS guides you through the many challenges and opportunities that developers and architects face when building websites and web services for an increasingly dynamic web. If you need to set up IIS as the foundation for your web application this book will teach you everything you need to know.

You will be walked through the key facts you need to be aware of when setting up a modern IIS installation. Whether you're starting from scratch or migrating from a pre-IIS 7 web application this book will help you make the right choices and give you peace of mind every step of the way.

Because of the rapid evolution of the web the modern IIS user is faced with fundamental challenges that previous users have not had to answer – is it better to host your applications locally or place them in the cloud? Are your security protocols sufficient for the task yet flexible enough to allow your web applications to grow? Are you using tools such as PowerShell to their full advantage? Will your maintenance routines provides the reliability that you need?

Practical IIS answers all these questions and more. This book gives you everything you need to know in order to set up, deploy, and maintain Microsoft web applications successfully. You'll be shown tools to monitor your application's health and performance over time, and learn how to ensure things go right and plan for when things go wrong. This book is your concise, practical reference to understanding IIS and using it day-to-day.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walch, Helmuth

Walch, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Windows Betriebssysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerkmanagement
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Server

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Part 1: Migration and Administration

1. Introduction

2. Why migrate to IIS 7.x or 8.0?

3. Daily Administration Tasks

4. FTP Server and SMTP Server

5. IIS Basic Troubleshooting

II Part 2: Performance Tuning and Best Practices

6. IIS Security

7. Monitoring

8. Optimization Techniques

9. Architecture

III. Part 3: Automation

10. Administration with PowerShell Scripting

11. Managing IIS Web Farms

12. Advanced Troubleshooting Tools

13. XML and CSS Introduction

IV. Part 4: Taking IIS into the Future

14. CRM Content Management Systems

15. Cloud Computing

16. Claims-based Authentication

V. Appendices

A: IIS Interview Questions

B: IIS Error Codes

C: FTP Error Codes

D: PowerShell cmdlets

E: CSS tags

Über Autor(innen)

Helmuth Walch is an Application Support Engineer who has been working in the software industry for the past 20 years as everything from a server engineer to an architect. As a hands-on IIS administrator, he's had wide experience in areas ranging from financial systems and e-commerce sites to web applications, as well as different platforms (HP UNIX and Windows) and languages (Visual Basic, Power Shell, and T-SQL). Since 2008 he's been focused on administration of web sites and web services for Fortune 100 Financial Institutions. His greatest strength is optimization and automation of daily tasks in very complex environments.