White Paper: Technical Overview of Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 (818661)

SUMMARY

Administrators and Web application developers demand a reliable, easily managed, high performance, and secure Web server. IIS 6.0 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 introduce many new features for Web application server reliability and availability, management, scalability, and security. The benefits of deploying IIS 6.0 include less planned and unplanned system downtime, increased Web site and application availability, lower system administration costs, server consolidation (reduced staffing, hardware, and site management costs), and a significant increase in Web infrastructure security. This document provides a technical overview of IIS 6.0, the next generation of Web infrastructure capabilities that are available in the Windows Server 2003 family of products.

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Topics That Are Included in This White Paper

• The Application Server Role
• A New Request-processing Architecture
• Security Enhancements
• Manageability Enhancements
• Performance and Scalability Enhancements
• Application Performance Enhancements
• Platform Improvements