Summary

Although IIS can be very easy to use and configure, a number of more advanced topics warrant consideration. In this chapter we covered advanced management tasks like backing up and restoring, configuring SSL certificates, and configuring authentication types.

In several examples, we used the AppCmd.exe command-line tool to work with configuration backup, restores, and configuration history. We also discussed creating failed request tracing rules to be able to pinpoint problems within a web application.

Access logging can be configured either per site or per server to provide detailed logs that track client access to the site. These logs can be used to identify the popularity of a web application or to determine usage patterns. Feature delegation is used to control the features that can be configured or to allow feature settings to be overridden that are configured at higher levels in the configuration.