I recommend this book to anyone who works with Windows Web Servers. Now that IIS 7.0 is out this book is still a great reference because IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 are so very different. Even if you have never worked with IIS before this is a great book. I have never been disappointed with the Administrator's Pocket Consultant series of books.

This is an excellent book! Stanek's Pocket Consultant books go far beyond the typical. He always uses his comprehensive knowledge to weave a fabric that balances the aim of a program with the fiddling details that drive admins crazy. As soon as I had skimmed the IIS book I set it aside and read one section a day. Nothing escapes his eye, every section clears up something that I had always wondered about. Great stuff!

I got this book because i need it when i am working in my intern. This book is good for beginners and little above. It is easy to understand and the quality is great. It worth more than it cost.

This is an easy to read book with the detail you would expect from a pocket consultant. The author doesn't waste time with the basic chit-chat and does a good job of laying out the useful material.

Content includes initial setup, backup, performance monitoring/tuning and more advanced features such as registry and metabase settings. Advanced readers will eventually want to search for further information on some of these topics (scripting for example), but this is to be expected. The books leaves you feeling comfortable with what you've learned and with a good feel for where you might want to expand your learning in the future.

Most of my computer books end up getting re-sold or trashed, but I'll be keeping this one on the shelf for myself and others to use in the future.

This book is really worth every penny it costs. It is packed with useful information, well written, intelligent, and enjoyable to read. Just the chapters on IIS applications, side by side .NET configurations, and pooling are worth the whole book: it goes through every detail.

The in-depth coverage of every other subject is as accurate as it gets. I particularly appreciated the chapter about customization. But the book goes as far as covering in perfectly understandable terms the metabase, and more. Not to mention the incredibly accurate chapter about optimization.

One of the good books in the market about IIS 6.0.

People who are interested MUST have a look at

MCPMAG(Redmondmag) IIS 6.0: Step-By-Step Mega-Guide, Part I & II as a quick reference.

One of the good books in the market about IIS 6.0.

People who are interested MUST have a look at

MCPMAG(Redmondmag) IIS 6.0: Step-By-Step Mega-Guide, Part I & II as a quick reference.

This book is indeed a pocket consultant. With its easy to read writing style, you can read it from start to finish or just skim each chapter for important topics. Either way, it will serve as an indespensible bookshelf companion and guide to discover many secrets and tips of IIS.

This book is indeed a pocket consultant. With its easy to read writing style, you can read it from start to finish or just skim each chapter for important topics. Either way, it will serve as an indespensible bookshelf companion and guide to discover many secrets and tips of IIS.

This book comes in handy a lot both for developers and systems engineers; quick fixes, general reference, features exploration...anything IIS 6.0. Covers from SSL installation to MIME types mapping and ASP.NET ISAPI references.I missed security best practices footnotes though but overall, worth every dollar.

This book outlines the basics of IIS and goes into more depth than any other book I've seen anywhere. It is a worthy acommpaniment to Stanek's other books as well. You will gain so much from this book you must own it.

Not only does it cover IIS Web stuff it also covers IIS FTP, IIS E-mail, Indexing Service, Certificate Services. There's excellent sections on ASP.NET and application pools. I found the instructions on running multiple ASP.NET versions to be immediately helpful. Plus 100 pages on performance, optimizing and backup-recovery.

I have no problems recommending this for the novice AND the experienced. In my humble opinion, this book is a must!

I have 3 words for any IIS 6 Administrator. Buy This Book! This is great day to day reference manual for anyone that works with IIS 6. The author trimmed the fat that you find in most other computer books you find and gets right to the heart of the matter. This makes it an excellent reference book, but not the best for learning about IIS Administration. While this book would help the IIS 4 or 5 administrator get up and running on IIS6, I would recommend that someone without any experience with IIS purchase another title to learn about IIS, then purchase this book for your day to day reference.

IIS 6 is a great web server, but to really get the most out of it you need a book like this Pocket Consultant. There's lots of little tips and tricks for newbies and long-time admins alike, and the book never talks down to the reader. The style of writing is very easy to read (and enjoyable too).

One thing that is really refreshing about this book is that it is downright honest. IIS is certainly not perfect, and it has its share of little glitches, flaws, and annoyances. Stanek comes out and mentions these up front AND he includes workarounds (official or otherwise) when they exist.

Enough blathering - I can sum up this book in one sentence: Whether you're new to the world of IIS or someone who knows IIS, this book has lots of good stuff you can make use of. Buy it.

I'll admit that I haven't read all of this book (yet), but I did use it to help me get an IIS 6.0 up and running, with a couple of web sites and an FTP server. I read parts of two other books about IIS 6.0 too, and comparing these three books I'd put this one in the middle in terms of how helpful I found it.

In general I think this is a pretty good book. The author seems to know his stuff and is good at explaining things, and the subject matter is well organized.

You should be aware that this book covers only the administration of IIS 6.0. It does not include any information about how to install IIS 6.0 or anything about creating web applications.

One thing I liked is that the book includes a chapter about the Indexing Service, something that I notice is not mentioned at all in the other two books I've read about IIS 6.0. I expect to be using Indexing Service later, and appreciate that it is covered here.

The chapter about setting up and administering an FTP site did not include any example showing how to best do this when FTP is to be used to upload material to a web site. On the other hand, the book did include the necessary warnings about the security issues involved, and it did include enough information so that I was able to figure out the best setup within the given limitations. So this book is still better than the other two books I read about IIS 6.0 concerning this point.

A few random quibbles:

- There's a mistake on pages 5 and 11 where it says that IIS 6.0 is not installed by default when Windows Server 2003 is installed. That's not true for Windows Server 2003 Web Edition.

- Figure 3-3 on page 51 is incorrect.

- References from one place in the book to another place do not use page numbers, only chapter and section titles, making it harder to find the place being referenced. (But apparently all modern IT books are like this. Is it because the same formatting is used for an eBook version?)

In conclusion, this book is too big to really be a "pocket consultant", but within its limited scope it does a very good job.

Rennie Petersen

I'm not quite sure why they named this one the Pocket Consultant because this book is quite a bit oversized to fit that title though still smaller than the standard sized computer book (i'm guessing the size at about 8" x 6" and about 1 1/2" thick). For those that are concerned more with the content of the book instead of actual size in relation to the title, the IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant should be everything you need to manage and tune IIS.

I've been in Windows server administration about 8 years, the last 3 of which for a web host. We started running Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 since its inception early 2003. Due to the nature of what is required of me, I need as many tools as possible to help in troubleshooting and configuration of IIS from every possible aspect since I am responsible for 20,000+ web sites. IIS 6.0 is so much more different and robust than IIS 5.0 and previous versions, so there is a bit of a learning curve involved with the transition. This book will help the person that has never touched the new version of IIS as well as the veteran that has worked with it for quite some time.

It wont be the only book you need to host a single or multiple web sites, since you also need to know about .net, asp, SQL, depending on the needs of each site. This book will however provide a most if not all of what you need to take care of the actual web server portion of your duties.

For more information on Windows 2003, I also suggest Windows Server 2003 Unleased.