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Internet Information Server (IIS)
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Windows NT 4.0 Server ships with Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). With this component a computer running Windows NT Server becomes a high-volume, robust Web server that can publish information to users down the hall or around the world. Internet Information Server is ideal for corporate networks on Windows NT-based computers because you can set up powerful Web servers on your existing hardware. Internet Information Server is integrated into the Windows NT Server operating system and takes advantage of its security features and performance capabilities.

Using Internet Information Server, you can develop a Web site that can be used to:

  • Publish a home page on the Internet for your business featuring a newsletter, sales information, or employment opportunities.
  • Publish a catalog and take orders from customers.
  • Publish interactive programs.
  • Provide your remote sales force easy access to your sales database.
  • Use an order-tracking database.
  • Publish an employee handbook.

Internet Information Server also provides other information services and supports a variety of interfaces that you can use to develop other features for your Web site. You can:

  • Create high performance client-server applications using the Microsoft Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI).
  • Customize the WWW Service by creating ISAPI filter programs that listen to incoming or outgoing requests and automatically perform actions, such as enhanced logging.
  • Run Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications or scripts.
  • Transmit or receive files using the FTP service.
  • Publish archives of information, spanning multiple computers, using the gopher service.

Internet Information Server includes the following components:

  • Internet services: WWW, FTP, and gopher.
  • Internet Service Manager, the tool for administering the Internet services.
  • Internet Database Connector, the component for sending queries to databases.
  • Key Manager, the tool for installing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) keys.

For more information on the latest version of Internet Information Server, see http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/web/exec/overview/overview.asp

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