Professional IIS 7.0

About the Authors

Ken Schaefer is a systems engineer consultant for global systems integrator Avanade. Avanade is a joint partnership between Microsoft and Accenture and focuses on enterprise projects across the Microsoft product stack. Ken has worked with IIS for around 10 years and has been a Microsoft MVP for IIS since 2003. He has presented at numerous Microsoft Tech.Ed events across the United States, Australia, and Asia; written articles for Microsoft TechNet; and spent countless hours talking about IIS at other events, user group meetings, and road shows. He is currently an MCSE, MCDBA, MCTS, and holds a Masters in Business and Technology from UNSW. When he isn't thinking about IIS, Ken can usually be found tinkering with Active Directory, Operations Manager, SQL Server, Windows Media Center, Virtual PC...

Thank you, Julia, Sebastien, and Theo for putting up with the trials, tribulations, and late nights involved in writing a book, again. This would not have been possible without your love and support.

As the lead author, on behalf of all the authors, I'd like to thank Bob Elliot and John Sleeva and the rest of the team from Wiley for their never-ending patience whilst we put this book together.

Jeff Cochran is a Senior Network Specialist for the City of Naples, Florida, and has been employed in the computer networking industry for nearly two decades. Beginning with computer bulletin boards on a Commodore 64 in the early 1980s, he has worked with nearly every method of communication ...