Overview and Installing Internet Information Services

• Understanding a Web Server infrastructure
• Installing Internet Information Services

Configuring The Default Website

• Examining the Default Website using IIS Manager
• Examining the Default IIS File Structure
• Configuring DNS records for a website
• Creating virtual directories and Applications

Configuring and Managing Application Pools

• Defining the Application Pool Architecture
• Creating and Managing Application Pools
• Configuring Application Pool Recycling

Creating additional websites

• Understanding multiple websites on a single server
• Examining and configuring the website bindings
• Creating New Websites

Configuring Website and Web application support

• Configuring Common features
• Adding support for web applications

Securing Websites and applications

• Defining Access Control for Web Servers, Sites and Applications
• Configuring Authentication and permissions
• Enabling URL Authorization Rules

Securing Data Transmissions with SSL

• Understanding Certificates and SSL
• Creating certificates for a web server
• Adding a certificate to a website

Using the Central Certificate Store

• Understanding the Central Certificate Store
• Installing and configuring the Central Certificate Store

Configuring Remote Administration

• Installing and Configuring the Management Service
• Connecting to remote web servers and websites
• Delegating Management Access

Implementing FTP

• Implementing FTP
• Configuring an FTP site
• Configuring an FTP site

Monitoring IIS

• Monitoring IIS logs with Log Parser

Backing up and Restoring IIS

• Understanding the IIS environment for Backup and restore
• Performing a backup and restore of a website

Building Load-Balanced Web Farms

• Understanding load-balancing Mechanisms
• Building a Load-Balanced Web Farm using ARR
• Sharing content to a Web Farm using a network share
• Sharing content to a Web Farm using DFS-R
• Sharing IIS Configurations in a Web Farm