D. Vassino said
This book does a good job at giving an overview of just about every option in the new version of IIS.
N. Burke said
William Stanek is well known for his acclaimed "Pocket Consultants" from Microsoft, and in this book he delivers an indepth, authoritative guide to Internet Information Services for both web and application servers. In 520 pages (including index), the author details just about everything you need to know to succeed with IIS. IIS is a major new web server from Microsoft, not just an update, and this makes this book even more important.
Stanek has organized this book into 14 chapters and one appendix. He starts Ch. 1 right off with a look at the new configuration architecture. He tells you how it works and how to work with it. Ch. 2 discusses everything you need to know to successfully plan a deployment and install. Clear organization in an indepth, authoritative way make this chapter alone worth the cost of the book.
This important book is designed to accommodate readers at every skill level, from beginning administrators to intermediates to advanced system administrators. If you are new to iis, you'll want to read the early chapters closely in particular Ch. 1 and 2. If you are an intermediate admin or advanced admin, you'll probably only need one read of these chapters to get everything you need to know to install and configure and optimize your boxes.
From Chapter 3 on the author, Stanek, gets into the deeper and deeper details. There's almost 100 pages on IIS apps, app pools, .NET apps, and .NET configuration. Two chapters on security, certs, and SSL. Two chapters on performance tuning, monitoring, and logging, followed by an exceptional chapter on backup and recovery. A comprehensive reference to the IIS modules and schema completes the book.
Excellent and the best of the best!
TravelTech said
William Stanek is the top windows expert for a reason and its because he understands windows and everything related to it like no one else. This book I've used to set up our external net servers and our internal net servers. Lots of APPCMD and XML config examples and good coverage of ASP.NET, .NET in general as well as Web servers, Web apps, security, certs, performance tuning and monitoring. Written for administrators but the dev guys are always stealing my copy so definitely good for dev in sense of setup and config.
Pyanfar Chanur said
If you're old hat to IIS, you may be surprised to learn that IIS 7.0 is completely rebuilt from the ground up.
The bad news is, the interface has been redesigned from top to bottom.
The good news is, the rework was done to bring the IIS technology more inline with the Microsoft .NET Framework.
I bought this book because the online resources I've found have been very poor (yes, including Microsoft's own sites). I've been pleased to find that the book dives straight into IIS, provides me the details I would need to manage my server, and (thankfully) provides a lot of screen shots. As an added bonus, Stanek offers suggestions on customization and points out areas that will require some decision-making, such as the hardware you plan to use and the security practices that you should think through.
If you're new to IIS as a whole, you'll have an easier time using this book to learn if you come from a development background. If you're new to Microsoft networking as well as IIS, you might need a little more detail and I'd suggest you start with a book on Windows Server 2008. As for me, this Swiss Army Knife of IIS Administration is probably going to be well-thumbed-through before the end of the year.
Preston S. Page said
This is another one of those printed versions of on-line help books that don't provide any context or, as the title purports, consulting.
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