Professional Microsoft IIS 8

How This Book Is Structured

The book is divided into four major parts:

• Part I covers the new features and architecture of IIS 8.0, as well as deployment and installation considerations.
• Part II discusses the basics of the administration tools (both GUI and command-line) as well as common administrative tasks for websites, delegated administration, and supporting services (such as FTP, SMTP, and publishing options).
• Part III introduces more advanced topics, such as extending IIS 8.0, programmatic administration, web farms and high availability, and security.
• Finally, Part IV covers topics that go beyond the initial understanding of the new feature set. We cover topics that administrators will need on an ongoing basis, such as operations management, performance monitoring and tuning, and diagnostics and troubleshooting.