Are there good reasons to upgrade to IIS 6.0?
From: doug (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/21/04
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:06:06 -0700
...if getting a copy of Windows Server 2003 is worth the
money? Can you clarify this? Do you already have a copy
of Win2K that you can use? If not, your only choice is
Windows 2003. You cannot license Win2K anymore.
I think the biggest reason to go to Windows 2003 and IIS6
is that IIS6 has been re-written. And I do agree with
MS's top ten benefits.
doug
>-----Original Message-----
>I know that Windows Server 2003 is necessary to run IIS
6.0 and that IIS 6.0
>has more secure default settings because it starts off
totally locked down.
>
>What are the benefits of IIS 6.0 over IIS 5.0 in terms
of performance,
>convenience to the administrator, security features
(beyond default
>settings), and snap-ins for the MMC? Are there other
important benefits? I
>also care about the benefits of using Windows Server
2003 to host web apps.
>
>I am part of a team developing a web-based application
for in-house use on a
>closed intranet for a couple hundred users. The
application will probably
>start out on a web farm with two servers, tied to a
Microsoft SQL Server
>database, and will be implementing sessions via the
database. The ASP pages
>won't be process
>intensive, mostly just manipulating business objects and
business rules and
>reading and writing from the database.
>
>I am trying to decide if getting a copy of Windows
Server 2003 is worth the
>money. If you switched from IIS 5.0 to 6.0, do you agree
with the top 10
>benefits that Microsoft lists at
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/why
upgrade/top10iis6.mspx:
>
>1. The new IIS 6 process model is more available and
reliable
>2. The IIS compression utility
>3. Previous Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)
locking issues are
>resolved
>4. General IIS 6 error rate reporting is significantly
reduced
>5. Revamped security reduces default attack
vulnerability
>6. Tracing is instrumented in the operating system and
its components
>7. The IIS 6 metabase is revamped to be completely XML
based
>8. Improved IIS and network load balancing (NLB) Event
Logging
>9. Resource Accounting and Quality-of-Service (QoS)
>10. Isolating individual Web applications and multiple
sites into a
>self-contained processes
>
>Thanks for the input.
>
>David
>
>
>
>.
>
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