Microsoft IIS Overview

The history of IIS reaches back to the Windows NT 3.51 operating system. Access to frequently used networking components and its capability to service multiple collaboration and networking protocols and services makes IIS an attractive solution for administrators. Some of the more popular services and protocols provided by IIS include File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). For many years, IIS has been the second most utilized Web server deployed for hosting production Web services as depicted by Netcraft's[C] Web Server Survey.[D] With this popularity, it has also been ...

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