Wednesday, January 9, 2008

What is IIS ?

The acronym IIS stands for Internet Information Services which can turn a computer into a Web server that can provide folowing services

  • World Wide Web publishing
  • File Transfer Protocol (also known as FTP)
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (also known as NNTP)
  • Simple Mail Transport Protocol (also known as SMTP)

You can use IIS to host and manage Web sites and other Internet content once you obtain an IP address, then register your domain on a DNS server, and configure your network .

The various versions of IIS are as follows as on 01/01/2008
  • IIS 1.0, Windows NT 3.51 available as a free add-on
  • IIS 2.0, Windows NT 4.0
  • IIS 3.0, Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3
  • IIS 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
  • IIS 5.0, Windows 2000
  • IIS 5.1, Windows XP Professional
  • IIS 6.0, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • IIS 7.0, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

IIS 5.0 and higher versions support the following authentication mechanisms:
  1. Basic access authentication
  2. Digest access authentication
  3. Integrated Windows Authentication
  4. .NET Passport Authentication

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