Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Summary
IIS 8 is a major improvement over earlier versions in terms of security, reliability, availability, and performance. These facets have been a top priority for Microsoft. Microsoft has incorporated both internal and customer-based feedback to provide a robust platform for providing web, application, and FTP services.
Key points in this chapter covered the planning and design of the new IIS 8 capabilities built in to Windows Server 2012. The features have been greatly enhanced to provide better management, scalability, modification, and reporting of web services operations.
Instead of having IIS installed on every installation of Windows server, an administrator now needs to add the IIS server role to the system and then go through a process ...
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