In this three day instructor-led course the students will learn to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot an Internet Information Services 7.0 Web Server in Windows Server 2008.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the IIS 7.0 modular architecture
• Describe the IIS 7.0 workloads
• Describe the three methods for installing IIS 7.0
• Install IIS 7.0 using each of the three identified methods
• Configure common features for IIS 7.0
• Validate functionality of configured features.

Module 1: Configuring an IIS 7.0 Web Server
The students will be introduced to the process of installing a Web Server and configuring IIS features such as application development; health and diagnostics; HTTP features and more.

Lessons
Introducing Internet Information Services 7.0
Installing the Web Server Role in Windows Server 2008
Configuring Application Development, Health, and HTTP Features
Configuring Performance, Security, and Server component Features

Lab 1: Configuring an IIS 7.0 Web Server
Installing IIS using Role Manager
Installing IIS using Unattend Setup
Installing IIS on Server Core from Command Line
Configuring IIS and Validate Functionality

Module 2: Configuring IIS 7.0 Web Sites and Application Pools
The students will be introduced to creating and managing Web sites and application pools.

Lessons
Introducing Web Sites and Application Pools
Creating a Web Site
Creating an Application Pool
Maintaining an Application Pool

Lab 1: Configuring IIS 7.0 Web Sites and Application Pools
Configuring Authentication Types
Creating a Web Site and Web Application
Creating an Application Pool
Configuring an Existing Application Pool

Module 3: Configuring IIS 7.0 Application Settings
The students will be introduced configuring application settings using ASP.NET.

Lessons
Configuring Application Settings
Configuring ASP.NET Security

Lab 1: Configuring IIS 7.0 Application Settings
Configuring ASP.NET
Configuring ASP.NET Application Development Settings
Configuring a Web Server to Host Multiple Web Applications with Separate Application Pools
Configuring ASP.NET Security

Module 4: Configuring IIS 7.0 Modules
The students will be introduced to configuring IIS modules.

Lessons
Configuring Native Modules
Configuring Managed Modules

Lab 1: Configuring IIS 7.0 Modules
Configuring and Editing Native Modules
Configuring and Edit Managed Modules

Module 5: Securing the IIS 7.0 Web Server and Web Sites
The students will be introduced to configuring a secure Web Server and Web sites and to using logging as a tool for monitoring security.

Lessons
Configuring Secure Web Sites and Servers
Configure Other Aspects of Web Server Security
Configuring Logging for IIS 7.0

Lab 1: Securing IIS 7.0 Web Server and Web Sites
Configuring a Secure Web server
Configuring Authorization, Authentication and Access
Configuring Logging

Module 6: Configuring Delegation and Remote Administration
The students will be introduced to assigning rights to Web site users and configuring users to serve as remote administrators of a server and its corresponding Web sites.

Lessons
Configuring Remote Administration
Configuring Delegated Administration
Configuring Feature Delegation

Lab 1: Configuring Delegation and Remote Administration
Configuring Remote Administration
Configuring Delegated Administration
Configuring Feature Delegation

Module 7: Using Command-line and Scripting for IIS 7.0 Administration
The students will learn basic scripting methods for completing IIS 7.0 administrative tasks needed to maintain Web sites and Web servers.

Lessons
Tools for Running Administrative Tasks in IIS
Executing Scripts for Administrative Tasks
Managing IIS Tasks

Lab 1: Using Command-line and Scripting for IIS 7.0 Administration
Managing IIS Web Sites with PowerShell
Executing a Script using WAP
Automating IIS Administration using Scripts
Navigating IIS tasks using WMI and Appcmd

Module 8: Tuning IIS 7.0 for Improved Performance
The students will be introduced to techniques for improving Web Server performance.

Lessons
Implementing Best Practices for Improving IIS Performance
Configuring Options to Improve IIS Performance
Managing Application Pools to Improve IIS Performance

Lab 1: Tuning IIS 7.0 for Performance
Configuring IIS Performance Options
Managing Application Pools to Improve Performance
Deploying Applications

Module 9: Ensuring Web Site Availability with Web Farms
The students will learn to ensure Web site availability in a Web farm topology.

Lessons
Backing Up and Restoring Web Sites
Working with Shared Configurations
Configuring Network Load Balancing for IIS

Lab 1: Ensuring Web Site Availability with Web Farms
Backing Up an IIS Web Site
Restoring an IIS Web site
Enabling Shared Configurations
Configuring Network Load Balancing

Module 10: Troubleshooting IIS 7.0 Web Servers
The students will learn to use audit logs to troubleshoot common Web Server related authentication, authorization, communication, and configuration error messages.

Lessons
Using IIS 7.0 Logging for Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Authentication
Troubleshooting Authorization
Troubleshooting Communication
Troubleshooting Configuration

Lab 1: Troubleshooting IIS 7.0 Web Servers
Troubleshooting Authentication
Troubleshooting Authorization Types
Troubleshooting Communication
Troubleshooting Configuration

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 7.0 Web Server over an intranet, extranet, and internet would be interested in this course.