Administering the Web Server (IIS) Role of Windows Server

Enhance your skills as an IT Professional by mastering Internet Information Services (IIS) management with our comprehensive course, perfect for Windows Server administrators looking to expand their capabilities with IIS for improved web application performance and security.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS)

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Secure web applications with authentication and SSL

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Optimize web server performance through monitoring and load balancing

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Implement and manage FTP services on Windows Server

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • IT Professionals
  • Windows Server Administrators
  • Network Administrators
  • System Engineers

Description

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to configure and manage Internet Information Services. This course is intended to help provide pre-requisite skills supporting a broad range of Internet web applications, security, and knowledge to help support other products that use IIS such as Exchange and SharePoint. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any particular web application or development practice.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Overview and Installing Internet Information Services

  1. Understanding a Web Server infrastructure

  2. Installing Internet Information Services

  3. Perform a default installation of Internet Information Services

  4. Verify and test the installation of a default installation of Internet Information Services

  5. Describe the network infrastructure requirements for IIS

  6. Explain the communication process between a web server and a browser

  7. Verify and configure the Windows Firewall for use with IIS

  8. Test a website by using a browser.

Module 2: Configuring The Default Website

  1. Examining the Default Website using IIS Manager

  2. Examining the Default IIS File Structure

  3. Configuring DNS records for a website

  4. Creating virtual directories and Applications

Module 3: Configuring and Managing Application Pools

  1. Defining the Application Pool Architecture

  2. Creating and Managing Application Pools

  3. Configuring Application Pool Recycling

Module 4: Creating additional websites

  1. Understanding multiple websites on a single server

  2. Examining and configuring the website bindings

  3. Creating New Websites

Module 5: Configuring Website and Web application support

  1. Configuring Common features

  2. Adding support for web applications

Module 6: Securing Websites and applications

  1. Defining Access Control for Web Servers, Sites and Applications

  2. Configuring Authentication and permissions

  3. Enabling URL Authorization Rules

Module 7: Securing Data Transmissions with SSL

  1. Understanding Certificates and SSL

  2. Creating certificates for a web server

  3. Adding a certificate to a website

Module 8: Using the Central Certificate Store

  1. Understanding the Central Certificate Store

  2. Installing and configuring the Central Certificate Store

Module 9: Configuring Remote Administration

  1. Installing and Configuring the Management Service

  2. Connecting to remote web servers and websites

  3. Delegating Management Access

Module 10: Implementing FTP

  1. Implementing FTP

  2. Configuring an FTP site

Module 11: Monitoring IIS

  1. Monitoring IIS logs with Log Parser

Module 12: Backing up and Restoring IIS

  1. Understanding the IIS environment for Backup and restore

  2. Performing a backup and restore of a website

Module 13: Building Load-Balanced Web Farms

  1. Understanding load-balancing Mechanisms

  2. Building a Load-Balanced Web Farm using ARR

  3. Sharing content to a Web Farm using a network share

  4. Sharing content to a Web Farm using DFS-R

  5. Sharing IIS Configurations in a Web Farm

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