Microsofta IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

By William R. Stanek

This work, with its child appropriate uncomplicated text and motivating illustrations, was written for a child's hand. By inviting the child to complete individual tasks, to solve puzzles, to answer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735615608
• ISBN13: 9780735615601
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent beginner to mid-level book

This is an easy to read book with the detail you would expect from a pocket consultant. The author doesn't waste time with the basic chit-chat and does a good job of laying out the useful material. Content includes initial setup, backup, performance monitoring/tuning and more advanced features such as registry and metabase settings. Advanced readers will eventually want to search for further information on some of these topics (scripting for example), but this is to be expected. The books leaves you feeling comfortable with what you've learned and with a good feel for where you might want to expand your learning in the future. Most of my computer books end up getting re-sold or trashed, but I'll be keeping this one on the shelf for myself and others to use in the future.

Very useful as a starter and reference

This book outlines the basics of IIS and goes into more depth than any other book I've seen anywhere. It is a worthy acommpaniment to Stanek's other books as well. You will gain so much from this book you must own it. Not only does it cover IIS Web stuff it also covers IIS FTP, IIS E-mail, Indexing Service, Certificate Services. There's excellent sections on ASP.NET and application pools. I found the instructions on running multiple ASP.NET versions to be immediately helpful. Plus 100 pages on performance, optimizing and backup-recovery. I have no problems recommending this for the novice AND the experienced. In my humble opinion, this book is a must!

This book should be on every IIS administrators desk

I have 3 words for any IIS 6 Administrator. Buy This Book! This is great day to day reference manual for anyone that works with IIS 6. The author trimmed the fat that you find in most other computer books you find and gets right to the heart of the matter. This makes it an excellent reference book, but not the best for learning about IIS Administration. While this book would help the IIS 4 or 5 administrator get up and running on IIS6, I would recommend that someone without any experience with IIS purchase another title to learn about IIS, then purchase this book for your day to day reference.

Great Desktop Reference

I'm not quite sure why they named this one the Pocket Consultant because this book is quite a bit oversized to fit that title though still smaller than the standard sized computer book (i'm guessing the size at about 8" x 6" and about 1 1/2" thick). For those that are concerned more with the content of the book instead of actual size in relation to the title, the IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant should be everything you need to manage and tune IIS.I've been in Windows server administration about 8 years, the last 3 of which for a web host. We started running Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 since its inception early 2003. Due to the nature of what is required of me, I need as many tools as possible to help in troubleshooting and configuration of IIS from every possible aspect since I am responsible for 20,000+ web sites. IIS 6.0 is so much more different and robust than IIS 5.0 and previous versions, so there is a bit of a learning curve involved with the transition. This book will help the person that has never touched the new version of IIS as well as the veteran that has worked with it for quite some time. It wont be the only book you need to host a single or multiple web sites, since you also need to know about .net, asp, SQL, depending on the needs of each site. This book will however provide a most if not all of what you need to take care of the actual web server portion of your duties.For more information on Windows 2003, I also suggest Windows Server 2003 Unleased.

A necessity for anyone working with IIS 6

A superb all-around guide to IIS for those who are already familiar with the basics of Windows and the Internet. What sets Stanek apart is his style - you feel as though you're learning from a real, expert who knows whats what, anticipates your questions and answers them. I highly recommend "IIS 6 Pocket Consultant" and other book in the "Pocket Consultant" series.