Site-Level Administration

Site-level administration of IIS differs considerably in its tasks depending on which of the four IIS services you are dealing with: WWW, FTP, SMTP, or NNTP. As a result, there is a detailed discussion of the various tasks involved in administering different kinds of sites (virtual servers) later in this chapter. (In other words, to learn how to administer WWW sites, go to “Managing WWW Sites.”)

Site-level settings for a newly created Web or FTP site are inherited from the server-level master properties. You can, however, modify settings at the site level and have those settings override the settings configured at the server level. Another important point to consider is that site-level settings are inherited by all ...

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