Chapter 7 – Internet Services

Publisher Summary This chapter covers the improvements and new features to be found in the Internet Information Service (IIS5) and its complementing services—Microsoft's certificate services. Much of the Windows 2000 documentation on the new certificate services concentrates on running an enterprise certificate authority (CAs) to grant certificates. Because Enterprise CAs are supported only in an Active Directory environment, this chapter concentrates on standalone CAs only. It is certainly true that running certificate services integrated within an Active Directory network makes it much easier to administer and deploy certificates. But one can still take advantages of certificate services outside Active Directory, and one may consider this to be a more secure solution anyway. The trick is to know what one can do—and the way to do it—when one is not running Active Directory. IIS5 is much easier to install with Windows 2000 because it's built into the base operating system. A clean installation of Windows 2000 Server and advanced server will automatically install the IIS, although it's not automatically installed on Windows 2000 Professional.