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Security Elements of IIS 6.0

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Security Elements of IIS 6.0 (PDF, 1.84MB)Published: 05 Nov, 2003
Created by:
Anthony DeVoto

Microsoft's latest release of its web server product (IIS 6.0) has been dramatically improved upon over earlier versions. It was completely redesigned and developed on the Windows Server 2003 platform. IIS 6.0 runs on the new Windows Server 2003 platform exclusively and has a Web Edition optimized for serving web content and applications. Improvements made in the product were designed for increased performance, reliability, scalability, and security. This discussion will focus on the security elements of IIS 6.0 as well as the security improvements made to those elements in this release.