IIS 8 and ASP.NET Administration

Teaches attendees the fundamentals of administering IIS 8 and applications on the .NET platform.
The course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Delegates learn by doing, with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Introducing the .NET Platform

• The .NET Common Language Runtime and Framework Class Library
• Review of applications that .NET can be used to create
• ASP.NET web forms and web services
• ASP.NET web forms versus ASP.NET MVC applications
• Classic versus WCF services

IIS 8 Architecture

• Integrated Pipeline Mode
• Extensibility and Modularity
• IIS Manager Extensibility
• WAS and the Worker Process

Installing IIS 8

• Clean Installation
• Upgrade Installation
• Adding Features to an Existing Installation
• Automated Installation and Configuration
• Server Core Command-Line Installation
• Hosting Service Recommendations

Administration Tools

• IIS Manager and Extensibility
• Configuration Settings
• Command-Line Management
• Command-Line Management with PowerShell
• Overview of PowerShell
• Getting a list of the IIS 8 PowerShell cmdlets
• New cmdlets in IIS 8
• Hands-on work with some of the most useful cmdlets

Fundamentals of Website Management

• Web Sites, Applications, and Virtual Directories
• Creating a New Website
• Configuring Logging
• Configuring Host Headers
• Administering Applications
• Administering Virtual Directories
• Configuring Compression
• Configuring MIME Settings
• Basic Administrative Tasks

Web Application Administration

• ASP
• ASP.NET
• ISAPI
• CGI
• FastCGI
• Application Initialization

Web Application Pool Administration

• Understanding Web Application Pools
• Virtual Directories versus Applications
• Understanding the w3wp.exe Process
• Application Pool Security
• Advanced Settings
• Application Pool Users

Packaging and Deployment

• Overview of Options for ASP.NET application deployment
• Building an installer package
• Handling deployment of updated applications
• Versioning applications and managing the deployment of updated applications

Delegating Remote Administration

• Introducing the Main Characters
• IIS 8 Manager Remote Access
• Delegation Settings

Securing IIS 8

• Types of Attacks
• Securing the Server
• Securing IIS 8
• Using the Request Filter
• Rewriting URLs with the Rewrite module (available as an add-on from iis.net)

Authentication and Authorization

• Authentication Types
• Configuring the Authentication Types in Use in Your Organization
• Understanding IIS 8 User Accounts

SSL and TLS

• Securing a Web Site with TLS
• Requiring SSL or TLS
• Client Certificates

Monitoring and Performance Tuning

• How to Monitor IIS 8
• IIS Performance Tuning Techniques
• Monitoring and tuning your .NET code
• Performance tuning suggestions for .NET applications

Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

• Common Issues
• Runtime Status and Control API
• IIS 8 Error Pages
• Failed Request Tracing
• Error Logging
• Access Logging
• ASP.NET Tracing
• IIS Troubleshooting Strategies
• ASP.NET Troubleshooting Strategies

Load Balancing Web Farms

• IIS 8 and Web Farms
• Content Configuration
• Content Replication
• Complete Redundancy
• Load Balancing