Microsoft® Windows® XP Unleashed

Appendix D. Basics of Internet Information Server

In This Appendix

• What's New in IIS 5.1?

• Installing IIS

• Creating a Web Site

• Managing a Web Site

• Managing an FTP Server

• Managing the SMTP Service

Internet access, particularly the Web, has become ubiquitous in the past several years—at work, at home, and even on the road.

Whenever you point your browser to a Web address, the browser retrieves the proper page from a Web server and displays it for you. Web servers run software that allows them to store, retrieve, and even modify all the pages and graphics that make up a Web site. Internet Information Server (IIS) is Web server software that comes with Windows XP Professional.

IIS provides a number of powerful features, including the following:

• Web Server—The ...