One of my jobs is webmaster in the sense of system support, not the common misconcept of graphics designer. I recently started supporting IIS (a shift from Netscape web servers which were essentially problem free). As such I need tips and resources for Microsoft's Internet Information Server IIS. As I find useful information I will use this page as an index for the IIS info. Please let me know if you know of an IIS tip or site I should add to this IIS resource page: .

Microsoft has released another IIS Rollup patch to date as of October 30, 2002. This patch applies to IIS versions 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1:
Cumulative Patch for Internet Information Service (Q327696)

Tips

• Backing Up and Restoring IIS Servers
• IIS 4.0 Recommended Installation Procedure
• IIS 5.0 Features
• IIS 5 New Features
• Differences in default behavior and settings between IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0
• IIS Metabase Registry
• Securing IIS 4
• Securing IIS 5
• Securing IIS : 10 STEPS TO BETTER IIS SECURITY
• Start / Stop IIS related services using NET START/STOP
• Gotcha! Microsoft IIS 4 Versus Netscape Communicator 4.7
• SecureIIS Application Firewall
• Security : How to Use the IIS Security "What If" Tool
• Using Windows Security with IIS and SQL Server 2000

Resources

• 15seconds : IIS support site
• How to Use WebDAV
• How to troubleshoot HTTP connections using Wfetch
  free utility
  
• How to View HTTP Data Frames Using Network Monitor
  
• IIS Administrator Newsletter
• Microsoft's Internet Information Server 4 Baseline Security Checklist
• Microsoft's IIS 5.0 Baseline Security Checklist
• Microsoft's Secure Internet Information Services 5 Checklist
• Microsoft's Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 Hotfix Checking Tool
• Microsoft Technet's Windows Web Services (IIS)
• IIS and ISAPI
• ASP Barcode Server Component for IIS Manual

FAQs

• www.iisfaq.com
• iisadministrator IIS FAQ
• windows2000faq.com IIS FAQ
• Perl on IIS 4

Most all the samples in the book are shown using VBScript, in addition to VB and C++. Chapter 10, "Active Directory Administration using Windows Script" has many examples of administration tasks. It also provides information on how to use WSH to automatically load the ActiveDS type library, and thus avoid having to do a bunch of CONST statements in VBScript.