IIS Administration Fundamentals

By Jeremy Morgan
IIS powers millions of websites every day. This course will teach you how to set up, administer, and secure an IIS webserver for your organization and become confident in administering your IIS setup.
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(127)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 8, 2016
Duration
1h 14m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Installing IIS 8 in Windows Server 2012
Introduction to Installing IIS 8 in Windows Server 2012 2m Installing IIS with Server Manager 5m Installing IIS with PowerShell 5m Installing the .Net Framework with PowerShell 3m Changing the Permissions of the Web Artifacts for the Website 4m
Creating Websites and Application Pools in IIS
Introduction 3m Demo: Creating a Website in IIS 4m What Is an Application Pool? 3m Demo: Creating Application Pools 5m What Is a Virtual Directory? 1m Demo: Creating a Virtual Directory 2m Summary 1m
Configuring Authentication
Introduction to Authentication 4m Demo: Setting up Authentication on Our Website 4m Summary 0m
Employing SSL and TLS for Our Website
Introduction to SSL and TLS 2m Demo: Installing a Self Signed and Public Certificate in IIS 5m
Administering Our New IIS Website
Introduction to Administering an IIS Website 2m Demo: Looking at Our Host Headers 2m Introduction to MIME Types 1m Demo: Looking at Our MIME Types 2m Examining IIS Compression Options 1m Demo: Setting up Our Default Documents 4m Introduction to Logging in IIS 1m Demo: Looking at Our Logging in IIS 6m Course Summary 2m
Description
Course info
Rating
(127)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 8, 2016
Duration
1h 14m
Description

As organizations grow larger it becomes crucial to manage their own web servers. In this course, IIS Administration Fundamentals, you'll gain the ability to administer an IIS server for your organization. First, you'll learn how to install and setup IIS. Next, you'll learn how to make sure your sites are secured. Finally, you'll learn how to setup logging and tracing for when things go wrong. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of IIS Administration needed to run your own servers confidently.

About the author
Jeremy Morgan
About the author

Jeremy Morgan is a consultant, tech blogger, and speaker. He likes to stay immersed with the latest in .NET Development and DevOps during the day and working on Linux machines and microcontrollers at night.

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Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Jeremy Morgan, and welcome to my course, IIS Administration Fundamentals. I've been working with IIS servers for over a decade, managing servers in sizes ranging from small startups, to a Fortune 100 company. IIS Administration is a crucial skill to help you keep your website running well, and delivering awesome functionality. Learning good IIS administration can save you hours of troubleshooting and enable you to unlock awesome features for your website that your visitors will love. In this course we are going to learn some core fundamentals for administering IIS servers. Some of the major topics we will cover include installation and setup, authentication, SSL and TLS, and some administration topics that you need to know. By the end of this course you'll be able to confidently run your own IIS servers, tune their performance, and know what to do when things go wrong. Before beginning this course you should be familiar with general Windows administration, basic web concepts, and PowerShell. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn IIS administration with the IIS Administration Fundamentals course at Pluralsight.

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