Internet Information Server

Introduction

Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) has seen many changes since Version 2 of IIS that ships on the Windows NT Server 4.0 CD.  Version 4 called the Window NT 4.0 Option Pack enables the network administrator to set up:

• World Wide Web (WWW) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.
• TCP/IP-based electronic mail using standard SMTP and POP3 protocols.
• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) that provides a central administration point for IIS and other WinNT management utilities.
• Microsoft Index Server that provides indexing and search engines that clients can easily use to search for information on your Web Site.
• Microsoft Certificate Server that manages digital certificates that can be used to authenticate users and information associated with the WWW site.
• Microsoft Transaction Server, which supports applications by providing a transaction processing environment.
• Microsoft Site Server Express which simplifies the tasks of managing web publishing and collecting site statistics.
• Microsoft Message Queue server enables applications to exchange information on the network by providing a reliable asynchronous communication environment.
• Microsoft Remote Access Services which extends the capability of Windows NT Server to connect to the Internet and provide Internet Services.

For the scope of this project I will concentrate on two components of this option pack they are the IIS Web and FTP Servers.