Chapter 11. Internet Information Services 7.0

Watching Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) evolve over the last decade or so has been exciting. While a high point for end-user experience was probably the worldwide release of Microsoft Windows 95, for an IT pro like me, one of the high points in Windows platform development was the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack release of IIS 4.0. Since then, as the version numbers have continued to climb, IIS has evolved into the most secure, reliable, and powerful Web application platform around. For instance, since IIS 6.0 was released on Windows Server 2003, there hasn’t been a single critical security update ...

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