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IIS Lockdown Tool Walkthrough
A complete examination of the actions, documented and undocumented, of the IIS Lockdown Tool.

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21 IIS 6 Pre and Post
Installation Tasks
An "Executive Summary" of 21 things to do before and after you install IIS 6

61 pages on IIS 5 and COM+
From the IIS 5 FastTrack class at IIStraining.com

IIS101 FAQ Article
Answers the most frequent questions about IIS on different platforms

Creating a Blind Drop FTP Server
New article by Steve Schofield

IIS State version 3.1 is available. This is newer than the Resource Kit release.

SSLDiag tool - helps to troubleshoot SSL problems for IIS 4, IIS 5, and IIS 6

New Log File Parser from Microsoft! Perform SQL queries on W3SVC and URLScan logs. Also see the April 2003 Technet Download CD for the latest Beta version. Not otherwise available

IIS 6.0

Awesome IIS 6 performance paper

IIS 6.0 Deployment Kit

IIS 6.0 Resource Kit tools now online
Many new tools:
- SelfSSL to instantly
issue a testing certificate
- Host Helper that registers host names with DNS
- MBExplorer, replacement for MetaEdit

IIS 6 Resource Kit Book is available for free online.

IIS 6.0 Technical Resources

IIS Articles & Papers
by Brett

IIS Training

Configuring Application Isolation on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0

Deploying and Configuring IIS 6.0 with NAS

Current IIS Insider Q&A
(detective graphic, the name "IIS Insider," and article contents are copyright Microsoft)

Many articles at Windows & .net Server Magazine

How-to Enable Pass-through― Authentication for Virtual Directories
(many others below)

We have discontinued our training classes as Brett was recently hired by Microsoft as a Server Evangelist specializing in IIS 7.

Sadly, we don't know of any comparable training. Materials may be made available in the near future.
The business is for sale and can make very nice living if you are an IIS expert who can also teach.
Email us if you have any questions.

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Feature Articles

What's the best method for disabling WebDAV?

IIS - The Rock!
IIS withstands major hacking attempts at TechMentor Security Summit. Secured using only Microsoft tools, templates, and some informed security tuning, IIS stands solid after 3 days of hacking attempts.

IIS 5.1 - How the XP Pro IIS 5.1 Server differs from IIS 5.0
This article is excerpted from the IIS Security and Administration course book. Brett walks through the user interface and points out a few differences as well as examines how WebDAV works (or doesn't as the case may be) in XP.

Upgrading to IIS 5
Upgrading to IIS 5 can be either a great dream or, how should I say, a not so great dream. In this article you'll find the FAQ on upgrading along with practical recommendations (including a sample unattended.txt file) and a demo of the new IIS Migration tool.

DNS for IIS Administrators
Finally - an introduction to DNS and a "how-to" setup DNS for use with IIS - by Rich Hintz.

Use Host Headers to Protect against Code Red?
It's true. Randy Hinders offers his experience with tracking down Code Red vulnerable servers and a very clever use of Host Headers as a security measure.