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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant
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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

by William R. Stanek
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
19h 24m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 10. Managing Web Server Security

As you’ve seen throughout this book, security features are integrated into many areas of Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to manage areas of Web server security that we have not yet discussed. Web servers have different security considerations from those of standard Windows Server 2008 configurations. On a Web server, you have three levels of security:

  • Windows security. At the operating system level, you create user and group accounts, configure access permissions for files and directories, and set policies.

  • IIS security. At the level of Internet Information Services (IIS), you set content permissions, authentication controls, and delegated privileges.

  • .NET security ...

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