MS Internet Information Server Service

 

Computer Scientist Inc. (CSI) has been investing in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) technology since early 1997. CSI has identified IIS to be one of the most complete server platforms for the Intranet and Internet environments. Microsoft IIS runs on Windows server platforms. IIS is tightly integrated software with MS Windows server platforms. IIS makes use of the same Windows directory database and Windows server tools. This integration simplifies the task of server administration and monitoring. IIS is designed to integrate with series if Microsoft Windows server products. These products are as follows:
  • Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) - A transaction processing server software designed for developing and deploying distributed server applications.
  • Microsoft Management Console (MCC) - A consortium of server programs, called "snap-ins", designed to help the network administrator to manage other internet server processes such as MTS.
  • Index Server - A server software product developed to provide content indexing and searching solutions for Microsoft Internet Information server.
  • Site Server Express - Site Server Express integrates with IIS to enable organizations to publish web sites on the server, map contents to web sites, check web sites for broken links, and monitor IIS log files.
  • Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) - MSMQ provides reliable asynchronous messaging among application programs.
  • Microsoft Certificate Server - Certificate Server generates digital certificates in standard X.509 format. These digital certificates are used for client and server authentication.
  • Internet Connection Services (ICS) for Remote Access Services - ICS is a group of software programs providing access dial-up solutions to internet server(s).
  • IIS provides the Internet and Intranet software development community with server side development services such as Active Server Pages(ASP) server-side scripting environment and Microsoft Script Debugger. CSI offers the following list of services:

IIS Installation

      CSI starts this process by studying and analyzing the organization's physical business structure, business processes for the over all organization and divisions in the organization, study of information flow, and transactions required for management of this information. Based on this study, CSI identifies the number of servers and the type of servers required to manage this information. CSI also identifies the network resource required to link the servers. CSI studies the volume of transactions and identifies the necessary resources required to operate each server. CSI starts with installation , once this study is completed. Installation of IIS includes this series of tasks:
  • World Wide Web Server installation
  • FTP Server installation
  • Setup of all virtual directories
  • User setup and authentication
  • Setup of network bandwidth
  • ICS and RAS setup

IIS Administration

     CSI offers series of administration services:
  • Site management
  • Multi-hosting
  • Process isolation
  • User access setup and management
  • Virtual user directories setup and management
  • IIS customization
  • IIS remote monitoring
  • IIS maintenance and upgrade
     

Utilize IIS Products

     After installation of IIS server(s), CSI focuses on the IIS integrated NT option pack products. CSI makes sure that the installation was successful in linking to these products. These products were named earlier, MTS, ICS, RAS, MSMQ, MS Certificate Server, MS Site Server Express, and MS Index Server.

IIS Security

CSI's implementation of IIS security starts with, first, establishment of security policy. The policy will include the physical policy, backup policy, privilege policy, Internet access policy, password policy, auditing and logging policy, and virus policy. Second step sets all the Windows NT built-in security features . Third step implements application security. Fourth step sets directory and file securities. Fifth step sets services security. Last step audits access logs and reviews security checklist.

Migration to IIS

     CSI offers migration from other  Internet servers to Windows NT Internet servers. The migration includes the following:
 
  • Study and analysis of existing web servers
  • Study of existing applications and data
  • Study of volume of transactions
  • Setup and configuration IIS servers
  • Development of data warehousing programs to move the data from exiting platforms to Windows NT
  • Conversion of all server side programs to Windows NT ASP programs
  • Modification and enhancement of client side programs
  • Identification and setup of user roles and creation of all user accounts
  • Integration and testing of new servers
  • Gradual migration of users from existing servers to MS Windows NT
     

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