Book Description
This book will provide programmers with a practical and fast-paced guide to the most important features of Microsoft's latest version of Internet Information Services (IIS6). This exciting new book covers the key areas of interest for web developers who use Windows servers who want to get started with IIS6. These include; New request Architecture Security changes ISAPI changes COM+ Services XML Metabase Quality of service HTTP Compression Performance IPv6 support FTP Restart Logging Unicode support New ISAPI support functions Persisted template cache Along the way, you will learn useful new techniques which will allow you to have a head-start when you use IIS6.

From the Publisher
Internet Information Services (IIS) is the part of Windows server operating systems that allows web sites to be published. IIS6 is the latest version of IIS, and is part of the next Windows server release, Windows .NET Server. Most web applications on the new server platform will be based on IIS. IIS6 adds several new features that are of interest to web application developers. This book will tell them everything that they need to know.