Table of Contents

Introduction xxvii

Part I: Introduction and Deployment

Chapter 1: Background on IIS and New Features In IIS 8.0 3

Chapter 2: IIS 8.0 Architecture 19

Chapter 3: Planning Your Deployment 39

Chapter 4: Installing IIS 8.0 63

Part II: Administration

Chapter 5: Administration Tools 97

Chapter 6: Website Administration 117

Chapter 7: Web Application Administration 153

Chapter 8: Web Application Pool Administration 179

Chapter 9: Delegating Remote Administration 221

Chapter 10: Configuring Other Services 259

Part III: Advanced Administration

Chapter 11: Core Server 315

Chapter 12: Core Server Extensibility 343

Chapter 13: Securing the Server 393

Chapter 14: Authentication and Authorization 423

Chapter 15: SSL and TLS 471

Chapter 16: IIS Scalability I: Building an IIS Web Farm 501

Chapter 17: IIS Scalability II: Load Balancing and ARR 545

Chapter 18: Programmatic Configuration and Management 597

Chapter 19: URL Rewrite 681

Chapter 20: Configuring Publishing Options 743

Part IV: Managing and Operating IIS 8.0

Chapter 21: IIS AND Operations Management 779

Chapter 22: Monitoring and Performance Tuning 805

Chapter 23: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting 851

Index 923

About the Author

Ken Schaefer is a senior architect at HP Enterprise Services and a coauthor of Professional IIS 7. He is a Microsoft MVP for Window Server/IIS. Jeff Cochran is a senior network specialist for the City of Naples, Florida. Scott Forsyth is the co-founder and Chief Systems Engineer of Vaasnet, and a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET/IIS. Dennis Glendenning is an enterprise solutions architect with Avanade. Benjamin Perkins is a senior support escalation engineer at Microsoft Deutschland.