What do you think?
Rate this book
Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches
Summary
Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Even if you have no prior exposure to IIS, you can follow the crisp explanations, examples, and exercises in this concise, easy-to-read book. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for a month, and you'll be managing, securing, and automating IIS administrative tasks faster than you thought possible.
About this Book
When your website slows to a crawl or Exchange stops sending internet mail, you have to get things working again. Fast. IIS is the communication gateway for most Microsoft servers as well as the primary technology for publishing web sites. Learning to manage it effectively means you can keep your systems running smoothly and go home on time.
Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Follow the crisp explanations, examples, and exercises in this concise, easy-to-read book, and you'll be managing, securing, and automating IIS faster than you thought possible. You'll start with IIS fundamentals, and then systematically explore web farm design, website management, and high availability, along with practices to keep your Exchange, SharePoint, System Center, and Lync servers running smoothly.
Written for anyone who needs to manage IIS, whether you're an IT pro or a reluctant administrator.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
What's Inside
About the Author Jason Helmick is a professional trainer and consultant specializing in Active Directory and IIS. He's the founder of the Arizona PowerShell User Group.
Table of Contents
Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Even if you have no prior exposure to IIS, you can follow the crisp explanations, examples, and exercises in this concise, easy-to-read book. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for a month, and you'll be managing, securing, and automating IIS administrative tasks faster than you thought possible.
About this Book
When your website slows to a crawl or Exchange stops sending internet mail, you have to get things working again. Fast. IIS is the communication gateway for most Microsoft servers as well as the primary technology for publishing web sites. Learning to manage it effectively means you can keep your systems running smoothly and go home on time.
Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Follow the crisp explanations, examples, and exercises in this concise, easy-to-read book, and you'll be managing, securing, and automating IIS faster than you thought possible. You'll start with IIS fundamentals, and then systematically explore web farm design, website management, and high availability, along with practices to keep your Exchange, SharePoint, System Center, and Lync servers running smoothly.
Written for anyone who needs to manage IIS, whether you're an IT pro or a reluctant administrator.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
What's Inside
About the Author Jason Helmick is a professional trainer and consultant specializing in Active Directory and IIS. He's the founder of the Arizona PowerShell User Group.
Table of Contents
- GenresTechnology
372 pages, Paperback
First published December 28, 2012
5 people are currently reading
17 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
March 24, 2014
One of the things I especially liked about this book is that it perfectly matches the declared goal and audience. The author claims that the book targets "inadvertent" system administrtors and not core system engineers with multi-year experience in the field. You do not need to be a certified Cisco professional in networking and routing, a professional web-developer or Microsoft systems engineer to make use of this book. It does not mean that the book would not be useful for that kind of specialists - it means that it can be understood by people with rather basic skills. The book does not refer to RFC documents or vendor documentation which may scare some readers. Instead it is quite self-contained and introduces many concepts (like SSL and certificates, search optimization, DMZ and firewalls, etc) in a very friendly way.
The author teaches you IIS topics at the same time sharing his expertise, best practices and tricks without overloading the reader with excessive details. You will not find long listings of numerous options many of which are normally not being covered in the examples. At the same time the author covers material related to support of legacy features (like IIS 6 compatibility mode, SMTP, FTP) to prepare the reader to face these things and related issues in their production environments.
It should be especially noted that the book is written in very simple language. The phrases are short and concise, you do not need to spend half of your efforts to understand what the author wants to say. Just one more thing which can be beneficial for readers who are not native English speakers.
The author actively but gently pushes the reader to actively expand his/her skills. He does not let the reader to be stuck with user interface. The author shows how you may achieve the same goals using Powershell without using interface at all. All examples are straighforward and the author gives exactly enough information to enable the reader to do the lab without the need to read one more book to study shell which may be new for the reader. Labs are not just something to utilize the feature. They represent true tasks being faced by web administrators every day.
It does not make sense to run through all the chapters but one thing should be outlined. Almost half of the book is dedicated to building web farm and high availability solutions using IIS. This is one more manifestation of being "effective immediately" motto of the series editors motto. You will not be left with the knowledge how to setup IIS on your PC/notebook. Instead you will be armed with skills relevant for the modern IT world where disaster recovery and high availability are crucial factors for any business.
This is great book for practitioner no matter what his/her background is, for someone who wants to use IIS and build or support web-sites running on this platform. Maybe it would be great to have a short appendix related to DNS basics and how to setup it on Windows platform in the book. Still in case you feel that you need more background on network basics to fully understand the material in "Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches", let me recommend "TCP/IP foundations" by Andrew J. Blank (these books are of approximately the same size).
The author teaches you IIS topics at the same time sharing his expertise, best practices and tricks without overloading the reader with excessive details. You will not find long listings of numerous options many of which are normally not being covered in the examples. At the same time the author covers material related to support of legacy features (like IIS 6 compatibility mode, SMTP, FTP) to prepare the reader to face these things and related issues in their production environments.
It should be especially noted that the book is written in very simple language. The phrases are short and concise, you do not need to spend half of your efforts to understand what the author wants to say. Just one more thing which can be beneficial for readers who are not native English speakers.
The author actively but gently pushes the reader to actively expand his/her skills. He does not let the reader to be stuck with user interface. The author shows how you may achieve the same goals using Powershell without using interface at all. All examples are straighforward and the author gives exactly enough information to enable the reader to do the lab without the need to read one more book to study shell which may be new for the reader. Labs are not just something to utilize the feature. They represent true tasks being faced by web administrators every day.
It does not make sense to run through all the chapters but one thing should be outlined. Almost half of the book is dedicated to building web farm and high availability solutions using IIS. This is one more manifestation of being "effective immediately" motto of the series editors motto. You will not be left with the knowledge how to setup IIS on your PC/notebook. Instead you will be armed with skills relevant for the modern IT world where disaster recovery and high availability are crucial factors for any business.
This is great book for practitioner no matter what his/her background is, for someone who wants to use IIS and build or support web-sites running on this platform. Maybe it would be great to have a short appendix related to DNS basics and how to setup it on Windows platform in the book. Still in case you feel that you need more background on network basics to fully understand the material in "Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches", let me recommend "TCP/IP foundations" by Andrew J. Blank (these books are of approximately the same size).
Displaying 1 of 1 review