IIS 6 Administration

Checklist: Administering Websites with IIS Manager

Check off each of the following website administration tasks after you learn how to perform them using IIS Manager:

• Configuring IIS properties sheets at various levels, including inheritance and override of settings

• Configuring a Default Web Site to serve special content when other sites are not specified or available

• Creating a new website on your server using the Web Site Creation Wizard

• Specifying a local or remote home directory for a website

• Saving a website’s settings to an XML configuration file

• Creating a new website by importing an XML configuration file

• Creating a local or remote virtual directory within a website using the Web Site Creation Wizard

• Creating a virtual directory by importing an XML configuration file

• Creating a virtual directory using Web Sharing

• Saving a virtual directory’s settings to an XML configuration file

• Specifying a default document for a website or directory

• Configuring MIME mappings at global, site, and directory levels

• Stopping, pausing, and restarting a website