20CREATING AND CONFIGURING AN IIS WEB SERVER
You’re at the last step in your automation journey: the web server. In this chapter, you’ll use IIS, a built-in Windows service that provides web services to clients. IIS is a server type you’ll run into often enough when you’re doing IT work—in other words, it’s an area ripe for automation! As in previous chapters, first you’ll deploy an IIS web server from scratch; then you’ll focus on getting the service installed and some basic configuration applied.
Prerequisites
By now, you should be familiar with how to get a fresh virtual machine created and set up, so we won’t be covering those steps. I’m assuming ...
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