Changes to Performance Monitor Web Service
Counters in IIS 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 332155 - Significant
changes have been made to Performance Monitor
counters in Internet Information Services ( IIS)
6.0. This article outlines some of the changes
to the Web Service counters How To: Access IIS 6.0 Help Documentation
815127 - This step-by-step article provides
instructions for accessing the Internet Information
Services (IIS) 6.0 Help documentation
HOW TO: Add and Remove Web Service Extension
Files in IIS 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 328419 - This
step-by-step article describes how to add Web
service extension files such as Internet Server
Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) extensions
and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications
to a local or a remote server in Internet Information
Services (IIS) 6.0. The article also describes
how to remove Web service extension files from
a local or remote server in IIS 6.0
HOW TO: Configure a Computer Running Windows
Server 2003 As a Web Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324742 - This
step-by-step article describes how to set up
a Web server for anonymous access in a Windows
Server 2003 environment.
HOW TO: Configure a Remote Domain for an
Internet Information Services SMTP Mail Relay
Server in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324272 - This
article describes how to configure a remote
domain for an Internet Information Services
(IIS) Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
mail relay server. IIS in Windows Server 2003
includes a full-featured SMTP virtual server
that you can use to
HOW TO: Configure IIS Web Site Authentication
in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324274 - This
article describes how to configure Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site
authentication in Windows Server 2003. You can
configure IIS to authenticate users before they
are permitted access to a Web site, a folder
in the site, or
HOW TO: Configure IIS to Control the Anonymous
Password
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 332167 - This
step-by-step article describes how to configure
sub-authentication in Internet Information Services
(IIS) 6.0.
HOW TO: Configure Internet Information Services
Web Authentication in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324276 - This
step-by-step article describes how to configure
authentication for Web-based requests in Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0.
HOW TO: Configure Web Permissions for Web Content in Internet
Information Services 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 816117 - This
step-by-step article describes how to configure
Web permissions for Web content in Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0. back to the
top Overview You can set Web permissions for
specific Web sites, folders, and files on your
server
HOW TO: Configure Web Site Logging in Windows
Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324279 - This
article provides a step-by-step guide to turn
on logging on a Microsoft Internet Information
Services 6.0 (IIS) Web site. Internet Information
Services (IIS) logging is designed to be more
detailed than the event-logging or performance-monitoring
features of Windows Server 2003. The IIS logs
can include information such as who has visited
your site, what they viewed, and when the information
was viewed last. You can monitor attempts, either
successful or unsuccessful, to access your Web
sites, virtual folders, or files. This includes
events such as reading the file or writing to
the file. Events can be logged independently
for any site, virtual folder, or file. By regularly
reviewing these log files, you can detect areas
of your server or your sites that may be subject
to attacks or suffer from other security problems
HOW TO: Control Access to a Database on a Web Server in Windows
Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 325877 - This
step-by-step article describes several methods
that you can use to control access to a database
that is published on an Internet Information
Services (IIS) 6.0-based Web server.
How to Create a File Viewer By Using ASP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 272656 - This
article describes how to use Microsoft Active
Server Pages (ASP) technologies to create a
generic file viewer by using the Scripting.FileSystemObject
. Important Note If you use the code in this
article improperly, the code can be used to
view...
HOW TO: Create a Metabase Backup by Using
IIS 6.0 in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324277 - This
step-by-step article describes how to create
a metabase backup by using Internet Information
Services (IIS) 6.0. IIS 6.0 Administrative Metabase
Backup The metabase is a hierarchical structure
for storing IIS configuration settings. It performs
some of the same functions as the Windows system
registry, but it is specific to IIS.
HOW TO: Create a New Virtual Server or Web Site in Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 816576 - This
article describes step-by-step how to create
a virtual server in Internet Information Services
(IIS) 6.0.
HOW TO: Create GUIDs by Using Active Server Pages in IIS
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 320375 - This
step-by-step article describes how to create
several example pages by using various forms
of GUIDs for Active Server Pages (ASP) pages
to use. These values can be used to create unique
data entries in a database, or anywhere else
where a unique
HOW TO: Create an FTP Folder with Read Access
but Not List Access
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 314932 - This
step-by-step article describes how to set up
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) folders on an Internet
Information Services (IIS) Web server so that
a user can access files when the user knows
only the file name and the folder contents are
not listed
How to Disable Socket Pooling
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 238131 - You
may need to disable socket pooling under the
following conditions: A low number of sites
are being hosted. There are special security
concerns. Another application or server has
need of port 80 on an IP address
HOW TO: Enable and Disable Dynamic Content
in IIS 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 315122 - By
default, when Internet Information Services
(IIS) is installed on any version of the Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 family, IIS only serves
static content (HTML). When you request dynamic
content, such as Active Server Pages (ASP) or
ASP.NET pages
HOW TO: Enable Chunked Transfer Encoding
with IIS
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 278998 - This
article describes how to enable chunked transfer
encoding with Internet Information Services
(IIS). The HTTP specification does not provide
a way to guarantee reliable transmission of
replies. The HTTP 1.1 specification adds transfer
encoding as a way to make it possible to safely
transport messages that are sent through HTTP
(see RFC 2068). "Chunked" is a type of transfer
encoding by which the message body is transmitted
to the client as chunks that are stamped with
the size of the chunks (see section 14.40 of
RFC 2068). With chunked transfer encoding, the
client can make sure that it has received all
of the data that the server sends. Chunked transfer
encoding is similar to MIME encoding in relation
to Internet mail (see RFC 822). The specific
differences between MIME encoding and chunked
transfer encoding are discussed in section 19.4
of RFC 2068
How to Implement a Single Logon Across Multiple
Web Servers
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 281408 - When
you use Basic authentication to password protect
content that is running on multiple Web servers,
users are forced to authenticate (enter credentials)
when they establish a new connection to a Web
server
HOW TO: Install Imported Certificates on
a Web Server in Windows 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 816794 - For
a Microsoft Windows 2000 version of this article,
see This step-by-step article describes how
to import a Web site certificate into the certificate
store of the local computer and assign the certificate
to the Web site
HOW TO: List Web Server Extensions and Extension
Files in IIS 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 328505 - This
step-by-step article describes how to list which
extensions and extension files exist on an Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0 server. The command-line
script, Iisext.vbs, which resides in the Sysvol\System32
(Default Windows\System32) directory, can be
used by an administrator to list Web service
extension IDs for all defined Web service extensions
on an IIS 6.0 server.
HOW TO: Manage Web Sites and Web Virtual
Directories by Using Command-Line Scripts in
IIS 6.0
816568 - This article describes how to use command-line
scripts to perform some common administrative
tasks that pertain to the management of Web
sites and Web virtual directories in Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0. It also describes
how to use the Iisweb.vbs script to create and
delete Web sites, and how to use the Iisvdir.vbs
script to create and delete Web virtual directories.
How to Modify the Cache-Control HTTP Header
When You Use IIS
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 247404 - Web
administrators who use Internet Information
Services (IIS) may need to periodically disable
the caching of content that changes frequently.
This article describes how to set the value
of the Cache-Control HTTP Header by using Active
Server Pages.
How to Monitor Bandwidth Throttling
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 238145 - When
you enable bandwidth throttling, Internet Information
Services (IIS) activates a set of counters to
monitor it in System Monitor (SysMon). These
counters can be identified by "Async I/O" in
the counter name. These counters are active
only when bandwidth throttling is enabled. (If
bandwidth throttling is not enabled, the counters
appear in SysMon, but they always have a value
of zero.)
HOWTO: Perform an Unattended Installation
of IIS 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 309506 - Internet
Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 is no
longer installed by default with the operating
systems that are listed at the beginning of
this article. This article describes how to
perform an unattended installation of IIS 6.0
on these..
HOW TO: Remotely Administer Internet Information
Services in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324282 - This
article describes the various methods that you
can use to remotely manage Microsoft Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0. You can remotely
administer your IIS-based server on an intranet
and on the Internet.
How to: Rename a Virtual Directory in IIS
6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 311626 - Important
This article contains information about editing
the metabase. Before you edit the metabase,
verify that you have a backup copy that you
can restore if a problem occurs.
How To: Rename Web Service Extensions in
IIS 6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 327403 - By
default, Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS
6.0) is configured to serve only static content.
The Web Service Extension node in IIS Manager
provides the interface you can use to allow
or not allow existing ISAPI extensions such
as Active Server...
HOW TO: Set Up Anonymous and Basic Authentication
on the Same Web Content in IIS
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 313251 - This
step-by-step article describes how to set up
both Anonymous and Basic authentication on the
same Web content. Configure an IIS Web Server
Your network may contain a firewall to protect
one or more IIS Web servers. You may want to
set up a Web site so that internal network users
can access the Web content with Anonymous authentication
(that is, internal network users are not required
to provide a user name and password). However,
because external requests are routed through
a firewall, external users must connect to the
site with Basic authentication (which should
be used in conjunction with SSL encryption).
HOW TO: Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 323384 - This
step-by-step article describes how to install
and configure a File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
server for anonymous access. Install Internet
Information Services and the FTP Service Because
FTP depends on Microsoft Internet Information
Services
HOW TO: Specify Additional Document Types
for HTTP Compression
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 234497 - Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) versions
5.0 and later support HTTP compression as defined
in the HTTP specification. By default, HTTP
compression only compresses files with a file
name extension of "htm," "html," and "txt."
This article explains how to specify additional
document types for compression.
HOW TO: Turn On SMTP Protocol Logging for
Internet Information Services in Windows Server
2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324266 - This
step-by-step guide describes how to turn on
protocol logging for Microsoft Internet Information
Services (IIS). Protocol logs track the commands
that the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
virtual server receives from SMTP clients over
the network. You can choose which logging format
the Microsoft SMTP service uses for recording
information.
HOW TO: Use NTFS Security to Protect a Web
Page Running on IIS in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 325357 - This
is a step-by-step guide to using Windows NTFS
file system security to protect Web pages that
are running on Microsoft Internet Information
Services (IIS). NOTE : This article does not
outline the best practices for using Microsoft
FrontPage and...
HOW TO: Use a FrontPage Web Site on a Clustered
File Share
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324320 - This
article describes the configuration that you
must use when you host a FrontPage Web site
on a clustered file share. You must follow these
steps because FrontPage uses the Internet Information
Services (IIS) Web server's request user identity
HOW TO: Use Host Header Names to Configure
Multiple Web Sites in Internet Information Services
6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 324287 - This
article provides step-by-step instructions for
hosting multiple Web sites by using a single
Internet Protocol (IP) address. Microsoft Internet
Information Services (IIS) permits you to map
multiple Web sites with the same port number
to a single.
How to Write a Robots.txt File
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 217103 - Web
Spiders, often called Robots, are WWW search
engines that "crawl" across the Internet and
index pages on Web servers. A Web Spider will
then catalog that information and make it available
to the Internet for searching. This makes it
easier for users to find specific information
on the Internet by allowing "one-stop shopping"
through the Spider's WWW site. Most Robots also
prioritize documents that are on the Internet,
allowing search results to be "scored" or arranged
in order of most likely matches on a search.
A Robots.txt file is a special text file that
is always located in your Web server's root
directory. This file contains restrictions for
Web Spiders, telling them where they have permission
to search. It should be noted that Web Robots
are not required to respect Robots.txt files,
but most well-written Web Spiders follow the
rules you define.
IIS Log File Naming Syntax
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 242898 - Internet
Information Server (IIS) version 4.0 and Internet
Information Services versions 5.0 and later
support the following log file formats: Microsoft
IIS Log Format National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) Common Log File Format World...
IIS Log File Is Not Created When There Is No Activity on
a Web Site
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 291279 - If
there is no client activity on a Web site during
the amount of time that you specified as the
logging period in the Web site properties, IIS
does not create a log file for that time period.
For example, if you set logging to occur on
a daily basis,...
Recommendations for Connecting to Databases
Through Internet Information Services
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 258939 - This
article is intended as a "best practices" guide
for when you call database components from Web
applications in Internet Information Server/Services
(IIS), though most recommendations apply to
any distributed application that accesses database
Support WebCast: Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS) 6.0, UNC, and Remote Storage
Configuring Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS) with content remote storage has always
been a challenge because of security and scale
issues in previous versions of IIS. IIS 6.0,
shipping in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, is
the first version of the Web server where this
scenario has been optimized to work for high
volume and high site density (such as shared
hosting) environments. Rich and the IIS team
will discuss the situations where an infrastructure
architect would build this type of configuration,
the benefits and tradeoffs, and the details
of configuring and optimizing IIS 6.0 with remote
file servers. They will also discuss examples
of Microsoft sites and customers who have successfully
deployed IIS 6.0 with remote storage solutions.
Support WebCast: Microsoft Internet Information Services:
Isolating and Securing Web Applications in IIS
6.0
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 815330 - Session
Summary Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS) administrators frequently configure multiple
Web sites on a single server. The Web site owners
(business divisions, developers, or ISP customers)
expect that their applications are isolated
both from problems occurring in other Web sites
and also from unauthorized access by the users
of other Web sites. This WebCast will review
the security features of IIS 6.0 in Windows
Server 2003 and discuss how to use them to secure
Web sites when more than one Web site is running
on an IIS server
Using Cascading Style Sheets Features with
ASP Forms
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 222443 - Internet
Explorer versions 4.0 and later provide a rich
set of text layout features to Web authors through
cascading style sheets functionality. Among
its other benefits, this functionality permits
you to change the display attributes of form
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