Chapter 25. Managing IIS

Most of the time you spend with IIS 7 involves some type of configuration or other management task. The basics described in Chapter 24 will probably garner you a test setup and let you start on your production system, but they're not complete instructions for building a Web server. This chapter adds to the information found in Chapter 24. It builds your knowledge so you can manage IIS on Server Core. This chapter almost completely ignores the graphical interface, however, because describing it would require another book.

Microsoft does provide some special features on Server Core that make your work considerably easier. You met one of the utilities in Chapter 24, AppCmd. This particular utility makes working at the command ...

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