Chapter 2. Internetworking Considerations

Internet information services can be configured in either an intranet or an Internet environment. In either environment, IIS is installed on a Windows 2000 server, and the server is connected to a network and running the TCP/IP protocol. This illustrates that the primary difference between an intranet and the Internet is simply that one environment is bigger than the other—a lot bigger.

But because the Internet is such a large environment, considerable options are available to make IIS function optimally on it. This chapter should provide an administrator with the full breadth of products and technologies that might be needed to successfully implement an IIS solution. Much of this information relates ...

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