{"id":5503,"date":"2006-04-10T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2006\/04\/10\/best-practices-for-windows-server-2003-and-iis-6-0\/"},"modified":"2006-04-10T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T12:01:00","slug":"best-practices-for-windows-server-2003-and-iis-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/best-practices-for-windows-server-2003-and-iis-6-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I took on the role of Technical Product Manager for Internet Information Services, one of the first questions I had to ask was \u201cHow do we [Microsoft] deploy and manage IIS?\u201d\u00a0 I wanted to provide IT Pros with best practice guidance for Web deployments of Windows Server 2003, and who better to give this real world guidance than our own IT departments, right?\u00a0 Well, the advice I got time and again was to go to the pro\u2019s at Microsoft.com Operations \u2013 no one does IIS like they do.\u00a0\u00a0 So then I\u2019m asking myself, what\u2019s the big deal with MScom Ops?\u00a0 Actually, a lot.\u00a0 Let me explain\u2026<\/p>\n
Microsoft.com is more than the world’s 3rd busiest website – it is also the ultimate testbed for many of Microsoft’s products including of course, Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0.\u00a0 The charter of Microsoft.com’s Operations Management is to always push to test and deploy Microsoft’s latest and greatest technology as soon as they can get their hands on it.\u00a0\u00a0 To support and improve Microsoft.com’s record 99.98% site availability, these guys want to run the most advanced server Microsoft has developed to date and being the guinea pigs for that software is a small price to pay.\u00a0 After learning, this I immediately got the in touch with the IT Showcase\u00a0 team because I had to get MScm Ops\u2019s experience deploying IIS 6.0 fully documented.<\/p>\n
IT Showcase ended up producing on three content pieces on how Microsoft.com does IT – a whitepaper, a case study and a note on IT.\u00a0 They are all extremely informative and I recommend you take a look at each of them, especially if optimizing IIS still sits on your To-Do list.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the scope on the content –<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The whitepaper, Microsoft.com Moves to x64 Version of Windows<\/a>, will provide you with every gritty detail for deploying x64 SKUs of Windows Server 2003 R2 into a high request production environment.<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The case study, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Microsoft.com<\/a>, explains the various troubleshooting issues Microsoft.com was encountering and the diagnostic methods they adopted to more reliablably identify and repair Web applications with performance problems.<\/p>\n