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Microsoft Internet Information Server 4 0 Sourcebook
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by Michele Petrovsky
Sales Rank: 6270886
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$0.82
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Paperback: 660 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition January 15, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471178055
ISBN-13: 978-0471178057
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.5 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
Michele Petrovsky's Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 is an excellent hands-on tutorial for both Microsoft NT Server 4.0 and Internet Information Server (IIS), versions 2.0 through 4.0. Early chapters teach the basics of installing and configuring NT and IIS in a variety of organizational settings. Throughout this simply written guide, the author defines all basic terms and provides many screen shots and tables, making this text ideal for administrators who are new to Microsoft's Web solutions. The best chapters describe how to configure an intranet solution for several types of real-world organizations, including a manufacturer firm and a community college. These examples make topics such as domain and user management, file systems, and dial-in networking options a lot more comprehensible. The "case studies" alone make the book a worthwhile resource for network administrators.
The author covers the basics of IIS, such as HTTP, FTP, and Gopher, including how to configure and fine-tune these popular Web services. Later chapters take on more advanced versions of IIS (from version 3.0 to 4.0) and discuss more recent Microsoft technologies, such as Active Server Pages, database connectivity (such as ODBC and Internet Data Connector), NetMeeting for video streaming, and Transaction Server. Chapters on Internet security are particularly strong and address topics such as firewalls and possible attacks on security. Although these last chapters are a mixed bag, the text is successful at outlining Microsoft's family of Internet technologies and products. Useful appendices guide users to all features of NT and IIS tools and round out this thorough text.
The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
This book provides a complete plan for setting up an Internet and intranet server using Microsoft's Internet Information Server. The bonus to ISS is that its free with Windows NT, and has a lot of added features that Webmasters want.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I am embarrassed that I did not look at this book long enough to recognize that the author knew nothing about NT and IIS before she started writing and almost nothing after she was finished. The publisher should be ashamed of releasing this book to the public. It is an example of greed. It was available to hit the shelves before nearly anything else on IIS 4.0 so those of us who needed to master the newest version of Information Server had little else to choose from when I bought it in April, 1998. Now I would say that absolutely every other book available is a better choice. I wonder what it feels like to offer something this bad to the public. I hope I never find out.
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