Administration

This section describes how to administer IIS by using the Internet Information Services snap-in. The IIS snap-in, hosted in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), is a powerful site administration tool that provides access to all of your server settings. Use the IIS snap-in to manage a complex site on your corporate intranet, or manage a staging site before uploading site content to Internet Information Server.

This section contains:

Web Site Management: Authoring site content and creating the necessary publishing-directory structure.
Server Administration: Advanced topics on adjusting the default settings to enhance performance or improve security.
Administrator’s Reference: Detailed information about registry and metabase settings.

Note The IIS Snap-in is an administration tool for IIS that has been integrated with other administrative functions of Windows XP. In previous releases this tool was called the Internet Service Manager.

This section does not contain information on:

Setting up a Web or an FTP site; see Quick Site Setup with IIS.

Setup or installation information; see Installing IIS.