Managing FTP Sites

The four levels of IIS administration that apply to the World Wide Web Publishing Service also apply to the second core service of IIS, the FTP Publishing Service. Because administering servers, sites, directories, and files is similar between the two services, this section is condensed to avoid repetition.

Server-Wide FTP Properties

In addition to the general server-level tasks of connecting to an IIS server to administer its services, backing up and restoring a server configuration, and throttling total bandwidth used by all IIS operations on the machine, IIS also lets you globally configure the master properties for all existing FTP sites on your server and for all new ones you might create.

To configure the FTP service ...

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