4Management and Monitoring
IN THIS CHAPTER
• The new XML Metabase configuration file
• Guide to Web-based Management
• Improvements in Logging Architecture
What's New
When IIS was originally introduced, Web sites were fairly insignificant. Although Microsoft and others expected you to use IIS for Web serving, the reality was that it wasn't seen as the primary purpose of the underlying OS or IIS as a whole.
Obviously things changed fairly rapidly—between the release of Windows 2000 Server products and Windows Server 2003, the number, range, and pervasiveness of Web sites is significant. It's getting difficult to find companies that aren't represented on the Internet, rather than the other way around.
But if we have more Web sites, ...
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