An Overview of Internet Information Services (IIS)
Internet Information Services (IIS) is one of the more commonly used Web servers utilized on the Internet and in intranets. Through IIS, you can create and manage Web sites, and share and distribute information over the Internet or intranet.

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.

The Types of Commands used to Manage IIS from the Command Line
The types of commands that 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.

Authenticating users in IIS is one of the initial steps in securing IIS. When a user attempts to access a website or an FTP site on an IIS machine, authentication is the process that verifies whether the user can indeed access the site. Authentication and permissions are closely coupled.

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.

Using SSL to Encrypt LDAP and Global Catalog Queries
While Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates are mainly installed on IIS
machines to encrypt traffic between a Web server and client, you can also use
SSL certificates to secure the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
protocol.

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.

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.

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.

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.