Contents

Getting Started xxi

Release Notes xxi

Known Problems and Limitations xxii

Documentation Addenda xxvii

Getting Help and Providing Feedback xxviii

Installing IIS 5.0 xxix

Directories Remaining After Uninstall xxix

Related Topics xxix

Features xxx

Security xxx

Administration xxxi

Programmability xxxii

Internet Standards xxxii

What’s Changed xxxiii

Administration xxxiii

Programmatic Administration xxxiii

Active Server Pages (ASP) xxxiv

Registry xxxiv

Security xxxv

Performance xxxv

Documentation xxxvi

Quick Site Setup with IIS 5.0 xxxvi

Windows NT Option Pack Documentation xxxvii

NTOP Components Found in Windows 2000 Documentation xxxvii

NTOP Components Found Elsewhere xxxviii

Related Topics xxxviii

Part I Administration 1

Chapter 1 Web Site Management 3

About Web Site Management 4

Getting Started 4

Defining Home Directories 4

What is a Virtual Directory? 5

Reroute Requests with Redirects 6

Other Useful Tools 6

Choosing an Authoring Tool 7

Overview of Available Options 7

Multimedia Content and Other File Formats 8

Advanced Web Site Development 9

Using ASP to Manage Web Site Content 10

Discover Scripting 10

ASP: A Brief Overview 10

ASP Solutions 12

Changing the Home Directory 13

Creating Virtual Directories 13

Redirecting Requests to a Directory 14

Redirecting Requests to a Program 15

Enabling Content Expiration 15

Using Content Ratings 16

Adding a Footer to Web Pages 17

Server-Side Includes 17

About Server-Side Includes 17

Enabling Server-Side Includes 18

Using Server-Side Include Directives 19

Chapter 2 Server Administration 21

Web and FTP Sites 22

About Web and FTP Sites 22

Starting and Stopping Sites 27

Adding Sites 28

Setting FTP Messages and Directory Output Style 28

Naming Web Sites 29

Restarting IIS 30

Supporting Host Header Names in Older Browsers 32

Changing the Inherited Defaults 34

Backing Up and Restoring IIS 35

Assigning Web Site Operators 36

Remote Administration 37

Downlevel Site Administration 38

WebDAV Publishing 39

About WebDAV 39

Creating a Publishing Directory 41

Managing WebDAV Security 41

Searching a WebDAV Directory 44

Publishing and Managing Files 45

Name Resolution 47

About Name Resolution 48

Getting an Internet Name and Address 52

Verifying Your Computer Identity 53

Configuring Applications 53

Security 63

Authentication 73

Access Control 85

Encryption 99

Certificates 104

Auditing 120

Custom Error Messages 126

About Custom Error Messages 126

Adding a Custom Error Message 128

Enabling Detailed Custom Error Messages 130

Enabling ASP Error Processing 131

Logging Site Activity 131

About Logging Site Activity 132

Enabling Logging 138

Tracking Processor Use 139

Customizing W3C Extended Logging 140

Saving Log Files 140

Converting Log Files to NCSA Format 141

Performance Tuning 143

About Performance Tuning 144

Memory Management 148

Processor Utilization 151

Network Capacity 154

Replication and Clustering 164

About Clustering 164

Replication and Clustering in IIS 166

Upgrading IIS Cluster Resources 169

Part 2 Active Server Pages Guide 171

Chapter 3 Active Server Pages 173

Understanding Active Server Pages 173

Introduction to Active Server Pages 174

Important Changes in ASP 176

Building ASP Pages 178

Creating an ASP Page 178

Working with Scripting Languages 184

Using Variables and Constants 187

Interacting with Client-Side Scripts 193

Writing Procedures 194

Working with Collections 197

Processing User Input 202

Using Components and Objects 208

Setting Object Scope 213

Sending Content to the Browser 217

Including Files 224

Managing Sessions 227

Accessing a Data Source 235

Understanding Transactions 248

Debugging ASP Scripts 253

Built-in ASP Objects 257

Active Server Pages Objects Quick Reference Card 259

Chapter 4 Developing Web Applications 261

Web Applications: An Overview 261

Building on the Client/Server Architecture 262

The New System Design 263

Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Application Architecture 264

Internet Information Services Architecture 265

Design Decisions 268

Defining Application Boundaries 269

Controlling Application Flow 271

Accommodating International Clients 279

Accessing Data with ASP 282

ADO Overview 282

Remote Data Binding with Remote Data Service 284

Processing Transactions 286

Designing Transactional Web Applications 286

Transaction Processing Technology 288

Security Ramifications for IIS Applications 289

Accessing Client Certificates with ASP 290

Passing Security Context 290

Additional Security Considerations 291

Development Technologies 292

Component Services 292

Dynamic HTML 293

Windows Script Components 293

XML 294

Active Directory Service Interfaces 294

Developing Scalable Web Applications 295

Performance 295

Scalability 295

Design Considerations for Performance and Scalability 296

Developing Scalable ASP Applications 297

Developing Scalable Components 300

Designing High-Performance ISAPI Applications 302

Data Access Performance 303

Performance and Scalability Testing 305

Chapter 5 Administering IIS Programmatically 307

Overview of Programmatic Administration 307

Introduction to the IIS Metabase 307

Development Choices for Programmatic Administration 312

Using IIS Admin Objects 313

IIS Admin Objects Overview 314

Administrative Tasks Using the IIS Admin Objects 316

Part 3 Administration Reference Material 319

Chapter 6 Administrator’s Reference 321

Server-Side Includes Reference 321

#config 321

#echo 324

#exec 327

#flastmod 328

#fsize 329

#include 330

Registry 331

About the Registry 332

Global Registry Entries 333

Service-Specific Registry Entries 336

WWW Service Registry Entries 338

FTP Service Registry Entries 341

Metabase 342

About the Metabase 343

Windows Events for IIS 344

About Windows Events 344

Web Services Events 345

FTP Services Events 351

Active Server Pages Events 352

Counters Reference 359

Counter Descriptions 363

Timeouts Reference 369

Timeout Settings Locations in IIS Snap-in 370

Logging Properties Reference 371

Redirect Reference 375

Redirect Variables 375

Redirect Wildcards 376

Part 4 Programmatic Administration Reference 377

Chapter 7 IIS Admin Objects Reference 379

IIsCertMapper 380

CreateMapping 381

DeleteMapping 382

GetMapping 383

SetAcct 384

SetEnabled 385

SetName 386

SetPwd 387

IIsCompressionScheme 388

IIsCompressionSchemes 389

IIsComputer 390

Backup 392

DeleteBackup 393

EnumBackups 394

Restore 395

IIsCustomLogModule 397

IIsFilter 398

IIsFilters 399

IIsFtpInfo 400

IIsFtpServer 401

Continue 403

Pause 404

Start 404

Status 405

Stop 405

IIsFtpService 406

IIsFtpVirtualDir 408

IIsIPSecurity 409

IPDeny 411

IPGrant 412

DomainDeny 413

DomainGrant 414

GrantByDefault 415

IIsLogModule 416

IIsLogModules 417

IIsMimeMap 419

IIsMimeType 421

MimeType 422

Extension 423

IIsWebDirectory 424

AppCreate 427

AppCreate2 428

AppDelete 429

AppDeleteRecursive 430

AppDisable 431

AppDisableRecursive 431

AppEnable 432

AppEnableRecursive 433

AppGetStatus 434

AppUnload 435

AppUnloadRecursive 435

AspAppRestart 436

IIsWebFile 437

IIsWebInfo 438

IIsWebServer 439

Continue 444

Pause 444

Start 445

Status 445

Stop 445

IIsWebService 446

IIsWebVirtualDir 450

Constants 454

Chapter 8 ADSI Reference 457

ADSI Object Properties 457

ADSI Object Methods 458

Get 460

GetDataPaths 461

GetEx 463

GetInfo 464

GetPropertyAttribObj 465

Put 466

PutEx 467

SetInfo 468

ADSI Container Object Properties 469

ADSI Container Object Methods 469

CopyHere 470

Create 471

Delete 472

GetObject 472

MoveHere 473

ADSI Changes for IIS 5.0 474

IIS Performance Features 475

ADSI Properties Removed from IIS 5.0 475

ADSI Properties Added to IIS 5.0 475

ADSI Property Key Type Changes for IIS 5.0 477

ADSI Properties Changed in IIS 5.0 477

Chapter 9 Administration Property Reference 479

Alphabetical Property List 479

AccessExecute 484

AccessFlags 485

AccessNoRemoteExecute 487

AccessNoRemoteRead 488

AccessNoRemoteScript 489

AccessNoRemoteWrite 490

AccessRead 491

AccessScript 492

AccessSource 493

AccessSSL 494

AccessSSL128 495

AccessSSLFlags 496

AccessSSLMapCert 497

AccessSSLNegotiateCert 498

AccessSSLRequireCert 499

AccessWrite 500

AdminACL 502

AdminServer 503

AllowAnonymous 504

AllowKeepAlive 505

AllowPathInfoForScriptMappings 505

AnonymousOnly 506

AnonymousPasswordSync 507

AnonymousUserName 508

AnonymousUserPass 509

AppAllowClientDebug 510

AppAllowDebugging 510

AppFriendlyName 511

AppIsolated 512

AppOopRecoverLimit 513

AppPackageID 514

AppPackageName 515

AppRoot 516

AppWamClsID 517

AspAllowOutOfProcComponents 518

AspAllowSessionState 518

AspBufferingOn 519

AspCodepage 520

AspEnableApplicationRestart 521

AspEnableAspHtmlFallback 522

AspEnableChunkedEncoding 522

AspEnableParentPaths 523

AspEnableTypelibCache 524

AspErrorsToNTLog 525

AspExceptionCatchEnable 527

AspLogErrorRequests 527

AspProcessorThreadMax 530

AspQueueConnectionTestTime 531

AspQueueTimeout 532

AspRequestQueueMax 533

AspScriptEngineCacheMax 533

AspScriptErrorMessage 534

AspScriptErrorSentToBrowser 535

AspScriptFileCacheSize 536

AspScriptLanguage 537

AspScriptTimeout 538

AspSessionMax 539

AspSessionTimeout 540

AspThreadGateEnabled 541

AspThreadGateLoadHigh 542

AspThreadGateLoadLow 543

AspThreadGateSleepDelay 544

AspThreadGateSleepMax 545

AspThreadGateTimeSlice 546

AspTrackThreadingModel 547

AuthAnonymous 549

AuthBasic 550

AuthFlags 551

AuthNTLM 552

AuthPersistence 553

AuthPersistSingleRequest 556

AuthPersistSingleRequestIfProxy 557

AuthPersistSingleRequestAlwaysIfProxy 558

CacheControlCustom 559

CacheControlMaxAge 560

CacheControlNoCache 561

CacheISAPI 562

CertCheckMode 562

CGITimeout 563

ConnectionTimeout 564

ContentIndexed 565

CpuAppEnabled 565

CpuCgiEnabled 566

CpuCgiLimit 568

CpuEnableActiveProcs 568

CpuEnableAllProcLogging 569

CpuEnableAppLogging 570

CpuEnableCgiLogging 571

CpuEnableEvent 572

CpuEnableKernelTime 573

CpuEnableLogging 573

CpuEnablePageFaults 574

CpuEnableProcType 575

CpuEnableTerminatedProcs 576

CpuEnableTotalProcs 577

CpuEnableUserTime 578

CpuLimitLogEvent 579

CpuLimitPause 580

CpuLimitPriority 581

CpuLimitProcStop 582

CpuLimitsEnabled 584

CpuLoggingInterval 585

CpuLoggingMask 586

CpuLoggingOptions 588

CpuResetInterval 590

CreateCGIWithNewConsole 591

CreateProcessAsUser 592

CustomErrorDescriptions 593

DefaultDoc 593

DefaultDocFooter 594

DefaultLogonDomain 595

DirBrowseFlags 596

DirBrowseShowDate 598

DirBrowseShowExtension 599

DirBrowseShowLongDate 600

DirBrowseShowSize 601

DirBrowseShowTime 602

DirectoryLevelsToScan 603

DisableSocketPooling 604

DontLog 605

DownlevelAdminInstance 606

EnableDefaultDoc 607

EnableDirBrowsing 608

EnableDocFooter 609

EnableReverseDns 610

ExitMessage 610

FilterDescription 611

FilterEnabled 612

FilterFlags 612

FilterLoadOrder 614

FilterPath 615

FilterState 615

FrontPageWeb 616

FtpDirBrowseShowLongDate 617

GreetingMessage 617

HcCacheControlHeader 618

HcCompressionBufferSize 619

HcCompressionDirectory 620

HcCompressionDll 621

HcCreateFlags 621

HcDoDiskSpaceLimiting 622

HcDoDynamicCompression 623

HcDoOnDemandCompression 624

HcDoStaticCompression 625

HcDynamicCompressionLevel 626

HcExpiresHeader 627

HcFileExtensions 628

HcFilesDeletedPerDiskFree 629

HcIoBufferSize 629

HcMaxDiskSpaceUsage 630

HcMaxQueueLength 631

HcMimeType 632

HcMinFileSizeForComp 632

HcNoCompressionForHttp10 633

HcNoCompressionForProxies 634

HcNoCompressionForRange 635

HcOnDemandCompLevel 635

HcPriority 636

HcSendCacheHeaders 637

HcScriptFileExtensions 638

HttpCustomHeaders 639

HttpErrors 640

HttpExpires 641

HttpPics 642

HttpRedirect 643

InProcessIsapiApps 644

IPSecurity 645

KeyType 646

LogAnonymous 646

LogCustomPropertyDataType 647

LogCustomPropertyHeader 648

LogCustomPropertyID 649

LogCustomPropertyMask 650

LogCustomPropertyName 651

LogCustomPropertyServicesString 652

LogExtFileBytesRecv 653

LogExtFileBytesSent 654

LogExtFileClientIp 655

LogExtFileComputerName 656

LogExtFileCookie 657

LogExtFileDate 658

LogExtFileFlags 659

LogExtFileHttpStatus 661

LogExtFileMethod 661

LogExtFileProtocolVersion 662

LogExtFileReferer 663

LogExtFileServerIp 664

LogExtFileServerPort 665

LogExtFileSiteName 666

LogExtFileTime 667

LogExtFileTimeTaken 668

LogExtFileUriQuery 669

LogExtFileUriStem 670

LogExtFileUserAgent 671

LogExtFileUserName 672

LogExtFileWin32Status 673

LogFileDirectory 674

LogFileLocaltimeRollover 675

LogFilePeriod 676

LogFileTruncateSize 677

LogModuleId 678

LogModuleList 679

LogModuleUiId 679

LogNonAnonymous 680

LogOdbcDataSource 681

LogOdbcPassword 681

LogOdbcTableName 682

LogOdbcUserName 683

LogonMethod 683

LogPluginClsid 684

LogType 685

MaxBandWidth 686

MaxBandWidthBlocked 687

MaxClientsMessage 687

MaxConnections 688

MaxEndpointConnections 689

MimeMap 690

MSDOSDirOutput 691

NetLogonWorkstation 691

NoCache 692

NotDeletable 693

NotifyAccessDenied 694

NotifyAuthentication 695

NotifyEndOfNetSession 696

NotifyEndOfRequest 697

NotifyLog 698

NotifyNonSecurePort 698

NotifyOrderHigh 699

NotifyOrderLow 700

NotifyOrderMedium 701

NotifyPreProcHeaders 702

NotifyReadRawData 703

NotifySecurePort 704

NotifySendRawData 705

NotifySendResponse 706

NotifyUrlMap 706

NTAuthenticationProviders 707

PasswordCacheTTL 708

PasswordChangeFlags 709

PasswordExpirePrenotifyDays 710

Path 711

PoolIDCTimeout 711

ProcessNTCRIfLoggedOn 712

PutReadSize 713

Realm 714

RedirectHeaders 714

ScriptMaps 715

SecureBindings 717

ServerAutoStart 718

ServerBindings 719

ServerComment 719

ServerConfigAutoPWSync 720

ServerConfigFlags 721

ServerConfigSSL128 722

ServerConfigSSL40 723

ServerConfigSSLAllowEncrypt 724

ServerListenBacklog 725

ServerListenTimeout 726

ServerSize 727

ServerState 728

SSIExecDisable 729

SSLUseDSMapper 730

UNCAuthenticationPassthrough 730

UNCPassword 731

UNCUserName 732

UploadReadAheadSize 733

UseHostName 733

WAMUserName 734

WAMUserPass 735

Win32Error 736

ADSI vs. Base Object Data Types 737

Part 5 ASP Guide Reference 739

Chapter 10 ASP Built-in Objects 741

Application Object 741

Application Collections 745

Application Methods 747

ASPError Object 750

ASPCode 752

Number 752

Source 752

Category 753

File 753

Line 753

Column 754

Description 754

ASPDescription 754

ObjectContext Object 754

ObjectContext Methods 757

ObjectContext Events 757

Request Object 759

Request Collections 760

Request Properties 775

Request Methods 775

Response Object 777

Response Collections 778

Response Properties 781

Response Methods 789

Server Object 795

Server Properties 796

Server Methods 797

Session Object 806

Session Collections 810

Session Properties 812

Session Methods 815

Chapter 11 Installable Components for ASP 819

Ad Rotator Component 820

Rotator Schedule File 821

Redirection File 823

Ad Rotator Properties 824

Ad Rotator Method 826

Browser Capabilities Component 827

Browscap.ini File 828

Retrieving Browser Capabilities from a Cookie 832

Content Linking Component 833

Content Linking List File 835

Content Linking Methods 836

Content Rotator Component 841

Content Schedule File 842

ChooseContent 843

GetAllContent 844

Counters Component 846

Get 847

Increment 848

Remove 849

Set 850

Database Access Component 850

File Access Component 851

Logging Utility 851

Logging Utility Methods 853

Logging Utility Properties 856

MyInfo Component 862

Page Counter Component 865

Hit Count Data file 867

Permission Checker Component 869

HasAccess 871

Status Component 872

Tools Component 874

FileExists 875

Owner 876

PluginExists 876

ProcessForm 877

Random 878

Chapter 12 Script Reference 879

JScript Reference 879

VBScript Reference 879

@ Directives Reference 879

@CODEPAGE 880

@ENABLESESSIONSTATE 880

@LANGUAGE 881

@LCID 881

@TRANSACTION 882

Global.asa Reference 883

Application Events 884

Session Events 886

<OBJECT> Declarations 889

TypeLibrary Declarations 890

Part 6 Appendices 893

Appendix A Frequently Asked Questions 895

Appendix B Web Resources 899

Glossary 901

Index 962