Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)

Judy Chen

Mohammad

Tiffany Le

Contents

Introduction Installations Security Enhancement Manageability Enhancements Performance and Scalability New Features Platform Improvements Summary

Introduction

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is integrated with the Microsoft Windows NT Server Operating System to provide a Web server for organizations.

Installation and the OS for Window Server 2003Web Edition Minimum

computer/Processor Recommended

Computer/Processor Minimum Memory

Supported Recommended Memory Maximum Memory Hard Disk CPU Support

133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU

550 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU

128 MB RAM 256 MB RAM 2 GB 2 GB hard disk with a

minimum of 1.5 GB free spaces.

Up to two CPUs on one machined

Installation and OS for Window Server 2003 Standard Edition

Minimum computer/Processor

Recommended Computer/Processor

Minimum Memory Supported

Maximum Memory Hard Disk CPU Support

133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU

550 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU

128 MB 4 GB 2 GB hard disk with a

minimum of 1.5 GB free spaces.

Up to four CPUs on one machined

Security Enhancement

Installs in a locked down state Installing 2003 server doesn’t install IIS by default.

Disabling via group policy Administrators can prevent users from installing IIS

on their computers

Command-line tools not accessible to web users

IIS 6.0 command line tools can’t be executed by the web server

Security Enhancement (cont.)

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Improvements Performance

Faster in processing than IIS 5.0 Remotable Certification Object.

Allow customer to manage accounts remotely. Unlike IIS 5.0

Selectable Cryptographic Service Provider Easy to select Crypto API Provider to accelerate

performance. Unlike IIS 5.0

Manageability Enhancements

XML MetabaseThe metabase configuration for IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0 was stored in a proprietary binary file and was not easily readable or editable. IIS 6.0 replaces the proprietary binary file, called MetaBase.bin, with plain text XML formatted files. Which incorporates rich functionality, such as inheritance, data typing, change notification, and security.

Manageability Enhancements (cont.)

Automatic configuration versioning The Metabase feature automatically keeps track of

changes. Edit-While-Running Feature

IIS 6.0 gives the administrators to change the server configuration while the server is running, through direct editing to the Metabase.xml file.

Server Independent backup and restore With a user supplied password, administrators and

developers are able to create server-independent backups.

XML Metabase

Manageability Enhancements (cont.)

New Web-based Administration Console

IIS 6.0 includes a new Web-based administration console called the Remote Administration Tool. Using the Remote Administration Tool, administrators are able to remotely administer IIS 6.0 across the Internet or the intranet through a Web browser.

Performance and Scalability

HTTP. Sys- New Kernel-Mode Driver Caching Policy & Thread Management Web Gardens Persisted ASP Template Cache Large Memory Support for x86.0 Site Scalability

HTTP.sys- New Kernel-Mode

A single point of contact for all incoming HTTP requests.

High performance connectivity for HTTP server application

Driver sits atop TCP/IP and Receive all requests from the IP/port Responsible for overall connection

management, bandwidth, throttling, and web server logging.

Caching Policy & Thread

IIS 6.0 has heuristics built in that use to: Determine the cacheable hot-set of an

application or set of sites Determine which items should be cached on

the basis of the distribution of requests that a particular application receives.

Makes better use of resources on the server Makes decisions to increase/reduce

concurrency on the basis-efficient in using concurrency.

Web Gardens: An application pool has multiple processes serving

the requests routed to the pool. Possible to configure the worker processes in a

web garden. Increase scalability

Large Memory Support for x86.0 For workload have a great deal of cached data. Can configure to cache up to 64 gigabytes (BG).

Persisted ASP Template Cache Templates are store on disk that work more

efficiency and faster response.

Site Scalability

Improved the way internal resources are used Many more sites can be hosted on a single

IIS6.0 server Larger number of worker processes that can

be concurrently active Quicker startup/shutdown of the server when

hosting sites. Capable of having thousands of isolated

applications configured – each run with its own application pool worker process.

Application Platform Enhancements- New Features:

ASP.Net and ISS6.0 integration Buffer and handle send Internal redirection Caching dynamic content Worker process recycling ISAPI support for custom errors Improves ISAPI Unicode support New COM+ services in ASP

ASP.Net and IIS 6.0 Integration Developer have high levels of functionality

Rapid application development Wide variety of languages to choose from

Is a result of enhanced process model integration in IIS 6.0 that support XML, SOAP, and IPv6.

Buffer and Handle Send (VectorSend) Server support function for ISAPIs Put together a list of buffers and file handles to

send in order This frees the ISAPI from doing any of buffer

construction or multiple write clients.

New Features:

Execute URL Allow an ISAPI extension to easily redirect a

request to another URL. Replace almost all read raw data filters Allow ISAPI extension to process the request

entity body and pass it to a child request.

Global Interceptors Implement ISAPI request interceptors:

intercept, change, redirect, or deny incoming HTTP request from specific URL space.

New Features:

Caching of Dynamic Content Implementation of Kernel-mode for dynamic content Benefit many customers have programmatically

created content that doesn’t change.

Worker process recycling IIS 6.0 support function called

HSE_REQ_REPORT_UNHEALTHY that allow ISAPI extension call into ISS 6.0 worker process to request that worker process be recycled.

Allow developer to pass in a string representing the reason.

New Features:

ISAPI Support for Custom Errors Developer no longer need to generate their own

error. Instead, they can plug into the custom error support

built into IIS 6.0 through a new server support function called HSE_REQ_SEND_CUSTOM_ERROR.

Improved ISAPI Unicode Support Important in a global economy Be able to get variables in Unicode and adds two

new server support functions

New Features:

New COM+ Services in ASP -Separated the COM+ services from component and allow ASP application to use a set of COM+ services in IIS 6.0

Fusion Support -allow an ASP application to use specified version of a system runtime DLL or classic COM component.

Partition Support – define a different configuration of a single COM+ application for different users. (security and version)

Tracker Support – allow administrators to monitor what code is running within the ASP.

Apartment Model Selection – allow developer to determine which threading model to use when executing the pages in an application.

Platform Improvements for IIS 6.0

64-bit Support-The complete Windows Server 2003 family code base is compiled for 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

IPv6.0 Support-is the next generation IP protocol for the

Internet.

Logging Improvements UTF-8 Logging Support-support IIS 6.0 writing log files

Binary Logging-allows multiple sites to write to a single log file in a binary, non-formatted manner

Logging of HTTP Substatus Codes-helpful in debugging or troubleshooting

Platform Improvements for IIS 6.0 (Cont.) File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

FTP User Isolation-easy availability and wide adoption for customers to upload the Web content

Configurable PASV Port Range-can reduce the attack surface of IIS 6.0 FTP servers by allowing administrators to have more granular control over the port ranges that are exposed over the Internet.

Improved Patch Management No service interruption while installing patches-

which means an administrator can easily install most IIS 6.0 hot fixes and most new worker process DLLs without any interruption of service.

Summary

IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003 introduce many new features for Web application server reliability, manageability, scalability, and security

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