Technical Overview of IIS 6.0 in Win 2003

Administrators and Web application developers demand a reliable, easily managed, high performance, and secure Web server. IIS 6.0 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 introduce many new features for Web application server reliability and availability, management, scalability, and security. The benefits of deploying IIS 6.0 include less planned and unplanned system downtime, increased Web site and application availability, lower system administration costs, server consolidation (reduced staffing, hardware, and site management costs), and a significant increase in Web infrastructure security. This document provides a technical overview of IIS 6.0, the next generation of Web infrastructure capabilities that are available in the Windows Server 2003 family of products.

Included in This Document:
The Application Server Role
A New Request-processing Architecture
Security Enhancements
Manageability Enhancements
Performance and Scalability Enhancements
Application Performance Enhancements
Platform Improvements

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