MS IIS Overview and Installation Issues

Bing Shi

June 3, 2000

COSC 573 Paper presentation

What is IIS?• IIS (Internet Information Server) is a group of Internet

servers for Microsoft's Windows and Windows 2000 Server operating systems.

• IIS is Microsoft's bid to dominate the Internet server market.

• IIS 4.0 is included in the new Windows NT Option Pack, which is available from Microsoft Value-Added Resellers (VARs) everywhere.

What is Option Pack

NT 4.0 Option Pack is a group of software added to Windows NT. It includes:

– Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

– Microsoft Management Console 1.0.

– Microsoft Index Server 2.0.

– Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 (MTS).

– Microsoft Site Server Express 2.0.

– Microsoft Internet Connections Service for RAS 1.0.

– Microsoft Data access Components 1.5 (ADO &ODBC).

– FrontPage98 Server Extensions.

– Windows Scripting Host (WHS).

– Microsoft Script Debugger 1.0.

Market Share of IIS

Server Percentage

IIS 21%

Apache 60.%

Netscape 7.2%

(Source: http://www.netcraft.com)

Apache60%

Netscape7%

Others12%

IIS21%

Server Market Share

Hardware Requirements

Processor 486 DX2/66 ( Pentium 90)

Memory 32 MB (64MB)

HD space 50 MB (200 MB)

Monitor VGA (SVGA)

Software Requirements

Windows NT 4.0 or later

NT Service Pack3 or later

Internet Explorer 4.01 or later

TCP/IP protocol

NTFS for all IIS drives

Software Recommendations

Name resolution services. WINS or a DNS

Client browsing software, IE 4.01

Content development tools, FrontPage98

Development tool. Visual InterDev

Relational database. MS SQL Server

Installation Options

• Minimum install

• Typical install

• Custom install

Upgrading to IIS 4.0

• IIS 4.0 Alpha, Beta1, Beta2, Simply remove then install IIS 4.0

• IIS 3.0 or IIS 2.0, delete default.asp file, then install IIS 4.0, no web files lost.

Others

• Unattended Installation

• Adding and Removing Components

• Uninstalling IIS 4.0

Install on Window 95

• Option Pack can be installed for Window 95, Windows 98 and NT Workstations as Personal Web Server (PWS).

• PWS is very useful for ASP page development.

References

• http://www.whatis.com

• http://www.microsoft.com/iis

• Administering IIS (ISBN 000655367)

Conclusion

• A lot more to be covered

• Excellent web dev tool using MS technologies (ASP, SQL Server, Index Server, MTS)

• Must for MCSE and MCSD