The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P94:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 906 Chapter 26 Managing Web Servers with IIS Performing Common Management Tasks First of all let s get familiar with the IIS Manager Console. How can we start the IIS Manager We can load the IIS Manager in the following ways. 1. Go to Start Administrative Tools Internet Information Services IIS Manager. 2. Go to My Computer Manage. Select and expand IIS Manager node. IIS manager is the primary interface to handle all Internet-related functions. We can set up Web sites Site Setup We can set up Web and FTP sites using IIS Manager. We can also configure SMTP and NNTP virtual servers using IIS Manager. The WWW FTP NNTP and SMTP servers can be installed manually or using scripts unattended setup . Please follow these steps to install the components manually 1. Navigate to Start Control Panel Add Remove Programs. 2. Click the Add Remove Windows Component button. 3. Select the Application Server option from the Windows Component window and then click Details. 4. Select IIS and click Details in the Application Server window. 5. Select the options you want to install Web NNTP FTP and SMTP . 6. Click OK and the installation process will begin. 7. You will be presented with a confirmation screen at the end of the installation process. Let s look closely on how to create and maintain Web FTP NNTP and SMTP sites. All these subjects will be discussed as a subsection from now on. Setting up a Web Site All Web sites can be created and managed in IIS Manager. This is a wizard-driven example. Therefore it is a simple task to create a Web site from scratch. Let s learn the process to create a Web site using IIS Manager. 1. Start IIS Manager refer to the previous section on Site Setup . 2. Navigate to Web Sites node and right-click it. 3. Select New then Web should get a screen similar to Figure . You can also create a Web site from XML file settings. This option is commonly used to create Web sites from a backup configuration. In most case you will be using the .
