Chapter 10
Configuring Other Services
What's in this chapter?
- Planning an FTP Server installation
- Installing and configuring an FTP Server
- Managing an FTP Server both through the GUI interface and programmatically
- Installing and configuring an SMTP Server
- Managing an SMTP Server both through the GUI interface and programmatically
- Installing LogParser and performing basic log-file analysis
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In previous chapters you learned to plan, install, configure, and manage the basic IIS 8.0 Web Server functions. IIS 8.0 and Windows Server 2012 come with ancillary services that an administrator may want to use, such as an FTP Server and an SMTP Server. There are additional services and third-party tools that may also be helpful to IIS administrators, such as Microsoft's LogParser. Although the capabilities of Microsoft's additional services might be more limited than those of other commercial products, such as comparing the SMTP Server to Microsoft's Exchange Server, for many functions the included utilities and services provide all the functionality needed and with no additional costs.
Not all IIS servers will benefit from these additions, and an administrator should install only the services required. The security exposure of unneeded services should deter administrators from installing them, but these services can bring additional ...
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