Configuring and Troubleshooting Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.x

Course No. ISI-1405 4 Days Instructor-led, Hands-on

Introduction

In this four day instructor-led course the students will learn to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot an Internet Information Services 8.x Web Server in Windows Server 2012/2012R2. The primary audience for this course is individuals who want to become a Web Server Administrator in an enterprise environment. Also, individuals who are assuming a new role requiring skills to manage content served by an IIS 8.x Web Server over an intranet, extranet, and internet would be interested in this course. The secondary audiences for this course are individuals who are Web-based application developers who also possess networking skills

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will learn:

 How to set up a proper IIS 8x environment  How to manage, secure and automate IIS administrative tasks  How to build a web farms and high availability solutions using IIS  How to support of legacy features (like IIS 6 compatibility mode, SMTP, FTP)  Effective use of PowerShell  Disaster recovery and high availability

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have one or more of the following:

 Network + certification or equivalent knowledge and skills

Course Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class. Course Outline

Module 1: Deploying the Web Server

 Locating and protecting the physical web server  Installing IIS on Microsoft Windows Server  Installing IIS on Server Core

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 Verifying a Successful Installation

Module 2: Exploring and Launching a Website

 Locating website configuration settings  Creating new web pages for testing and troubleshooting  Adding new folders and applications  Opening your first website for business

Module 3: Managing Application Pools

 Creating and configuring standard application pool settings  Application pool recycling: increasing reliability and availability

Module 4: Adding More Websites to your Server

 Adding a new website using the IIS manager  Uniquely identifying your websites with bindings  An alternate way: adding a new website using PowerShell

Module 5: What Every Administrator Should Know about Web Applications

 Configuring the basics for all applications  Supporting common web applications  Monitoring your applications

Module 6: Securing Your Sites and Web Applications

 Controlling who can access your site  Setting site-level permissions: NTFS  Advanced/optional access control

Module 7: Securing the Server

 Network protection for IIS  Adding additional security  Monitoring process for hacking

Module 8: Protecting Data with Certificates

 Not all certificates are the same  Implementing certificates on a single IIS server  Securing your websites

Module 9: FTP and SMTP with IIS

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 File transfers  SMTP for email

Module 10: Sharing Administrative Responsibilities Through Remote Management

 Implementing IIS remote management  Implementing IIS remote management service  Delegating access to other administrators

Module 11: Optimizing Sites for Users and Search Engines

 Search engine optimization toolkit  Improving SEO with URL rewrite  Using regular expressions to improve URL rewrite

Module 12: Building a Web Farm with Microsoft Network Load Balancing

 Introduction to the load balancing farm  Deploying a web farm using Microsoft NLB  Deploying websites to a web farm using PowerShell  Health and verification for NLB

Module 13: Building a Web Farm with Application Request Routing

 Installing ARR  Creating a web farm with ARR  Configuring application request routing  Logging and health monitoring with ARR

Module 14: High Availability for ARR using Microsoft NLB

 Adding affordable high availability

Module 15: Sharing Content and Configuration to the Web Farm

 Sharing content for a web farm using PowerShell  Sharing content using Distributed File System (DFS)  Sharing content from a single location

Module 16: Sharing IIS Configurations for a Web Farm

 Configuring shared configurations  Installing components with shared configurations

Module 17: Using the Central Certificate Store for Certificate Management

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 Installing and configuring the central certificate store  Using CSS on remote web servers

Module 18: Web Farm Provisioning with the Web Farm Framework

 Implementing the web farm framework with ARR  Building the web farm  Managing the web farm

Module 19: Disaster Recovery for IIS

 Analyzing your environment for disaster recovery  Back up the critical components and data

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