Monitoring IIS Performance in Windows Server 2003
The primary performance monitoring MMC snap-ins and tools used for monitoring Windows Server 2003, and IIS are:
System Monitor: The System Monitor is the one of the main MMC snap-ins used to monitor system performance. This was previously the Performance Monitor tool in Windows NT. The name change to System Monitor occurred in Windows 2000. Through System Monitor, you can monitor various elements of the performance of a server, and you...
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The Types of Commands used for Managing IIS from the Command Line
The types of commands which you can use to manage IIS from the command line are:
IISReset, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripts, Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI), and the standard Windows commands and Support Tools utilities.IISReset Command-line Utility
IISReset is a command-line utility that has been in existence from IIS 5, which you can use to stop IIS, restart IIS, and reboot the IIS server...
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An Overview of the IIS Metabase
With the introduction of IIS 4, came the introduction of the metabase. IIS configuration information was no longer stored in the Registry, but in the new metabase structure. Some IIS configuration settings however still remained stored in the Registry, under the following...
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Overview on IIS User Authentication
Authenticating users in IIS is one of the initial steps in securing IIS. When a user attempts to access a Web site or a FTP site on an IIS machine, authentication is the process which verifies whether the user can indeed access the site. Authentication and permissions are closely coupled. After a user is authenticated, NTFS permissions determine whether the user can access folders and files, and Web permissions indicate whether a Web client or FTP client can...
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Understanding HTTP Error Messages
HTTP error messages are related to the HTTP status codes which are included in the response headers when pages are requested from the Web server. HTTP status codes are three digit numbers.
HTTP status codes are categorized into the following categories:
Informational (1xx): This category is used for testing, and is not used for production Web servers.
Successful (2xx): Indicates that requests were successfully received.
Redirection (3xx): Indicates...
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An Introduction to Internet Information Services (IIS)
Microsoft's integrated Web server, Internet Information Services (IIS) enables you to create and manage Web sites within your organization. It allows you to share and distribute information over the Internet or intranet. With Windows 2000 came Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 which was basically the fastest Web server at the time when Windows 2000 Server was introduced. IIS 5.0 was fully integrated with the Active Directory...
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An Overview on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
With IIS, you can further secure websites by using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. SSL was developed by Netscape Communications, and enables secure communication over the Internet. SSL operates at the transport layer of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite, and uses public key cryptography to establish a secure SSL session between a Web server and client. A few features provided by SSL include...
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Publishing Content using WebDAV
You can use Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to manage and publish content such as HTML files, ASP pages, scripts and executables, to IIS. You can use WebDAV to create and modify web content on Internet servers. WebDAV utilizes the port 80. This is the default used by HTTP. By default, WebDAV is not installed, nor enabled in IIS 6.How to install WebDAV
Click Start, Control Panel, and click Add/Remove Programs.
Click Add/Remove Windows...
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Authentication in IIS
Authentication in IIS verifies whether a user attempting to access a particular website, can indeed access it. Authentication is the process that verifies whether the user can access the site which he/she is attempting to access. The authentication methods which can be used to authenticate users in IIS 6 are listed below. Each authentication method can be used to authenticate users attempting to access Web sites. However, only Anonymous access and Basic Authentication...
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