Appendix D. Resources

This appendix lists several useful resources and links that can serve as additional reading and reference material for IIS Administrators.

IIS Product Group Resources

The IIS Product Group maintains the www.iis.net web site as a central repository for IIS-related resources, including downloads, walkthroughs, team blogs, and support forums. Readers may find the following sections particularly helpful:

  • http://forums.iis.net hosts a set of forums for IIS issues, with members of the IIS Product Group, Microsoft MVPs, and Microsoft PSS staff assisting posters with issues and questions.

  • http://blogs.iis.net hosts blogs of team members from the IIS Product Group.

  • www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=3 provides a set of downloads and add-ons for IIS 7.0 (and also for previous versions), from the IIS Product Group, from Microsoft, and from third parties. The major add-ons mentioned in this book (such as FTP 7) can be downloaded from here.

IIS Public Newsgroups

Microsoft also maintains an extensive set of newsgroups covering many products (including IIS). Various Microsoft personnel and MVPs can be found in these groups. Newsgroups can be accessed using a news reader (such as Vista's Windows Mail or Windows XP's Outlook Express). The following are some of the more popular IIS-related newsgroups:

  • news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetserver.iis

  • news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.security

These newsgroups are also accessible via a Web interface ...

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