Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Use IIS 8 to improve performance and strengthen security.

• Thoroughly design and plan the IIS 8 environment.

• Define the goals and objectives of the IIS 8 project.

• Identify and review IIS application types and requirements.

• Define security requirements to meet the goals and objectives.

• Balance the security methodologies to be used with the associated risks and end-user experience.

• Examine and design disaster recovery plans, and monitor requirements and maintenance practices.

• Document the current IIS infrastructure and the IIS design decisions.

• Build fault tolerance in to the web infrastructure based on how much downtime can be afforded and existing SLAs.

• Use ...

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