1. MS IIS Overview and Installation Issues Bing Shi June 3, 2000 COSC 573 Paper presentation

2. What is IIS? IIS (Internet Information Server) is a group of Internet servers for Microsoft's Windows and Windows 2000 Server operating systems. IIS is Microsoft's bid to dominate the Internet server market. IIS 4.0 is included in the new Windows NT Option Pack, which is available from Microsoft Value-Added Resellers (VARs) everywhere.

3. What is Option Pack NT 4.0 Option Pack is a group of software added to Windows NT. It includes: – Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 – Microsoft Management Console 1.0. – Microsoft Index Server 2.0. – Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 (MTS). – Microsoft Site Server Express 2.0. – Microsoft Internet Connections Service for RAS 1.0. – Microsoft Data access Components 1.5 (ADO &ODBC). – FrontPage98 Server Extensions. – Windows Scripting Host (WHS). – Microsoft Script Debugger 1.0.

4. Market Share of IIS (Source: http://www.netcraft.com)

5. Server Market Share

6. Hardware Requirements

7. Software Requirements

8. Software Recommendations

9. Installation Options Minimum install Typical install Custom install

10. Upgrading to IIS 4.0 IIS 4.0 Alpha, Beta1, Beta2, Simply remove then install IIS 4.0 IIS 3.0 or IIS 2.0, delete default.asp file, then install IIS 4.0, no web files lost.

11. Others Unattended Installation Adding and Removing Components Uninstalling IIS 4.0

12. Install on Window 95 Option Pack can be installed for Window 95, Windows 98 and NT Workstations as Personal Web Server (PWS). PWS is very useful for ASP page development.

13. References http://www.whatis.com http://www.microsoft.com/iis Administering IIS (ISBN 000655367)

14. Conclusion A lot more to be covered Excellent web dev tool using MS technologies (ASP, SQL Server, Index Server, MTS) Must for MCSE and MCSD