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Summary: A glorified help file in paperback form
Review: The book did VERY little to explain what each option MEANS and what the ramifications are for various values that can be set for that option.All the book seemed to do was show a screen print and give a one paragraph description of what each option is. I wasted my money.
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Summary: Up and Running
Review: The book worked for me. I needed something that was an easy read and this did the trick. Lots of information on setting up and configuring IIS. Step by step instructions and easy to follow.
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Summary: Up and Running
Review: The book worked for me. I needed something that was an easy read and this did the trick. Lots of information on setting up and configuring IIS. Step by step instructions and easy to follow.
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Summary: Comprehensive
Review: This book covers everything I needed to know to run IIS. It covers the issues from upgrading from IIS 4 to IIS 5, setting up Websites, and management issues. There are loads of step through exercises, and plenty of screen captures to walk you through the tasks you need to know to manage a Web. A very complete book.
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Summary: worse than useless
Review: This book is meant to teach you how to use IIS 5. It says on the back "Everything you need to know to maximise IIS 5.0..". This is completely untrue. This book teaches you nothing about the latest features of IIS, for example, it have virtually nothing on ASP. It is not comprehensive enough to be a reference manual, nor is it written in a format that would make it easy to read from start to finish like a study guide. It is not one of those books where you can read a single chapter and get an understanding of that subject. It is like written like a Microsoft study guide (contradiction in terms) but without any detail, so I can't really see who would benefit from this book at all. I would say wholly useless and award it 0 stars if that was possible.
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Summary: Useless
Review: This looks like a re-edited IIS 4 book. A very important new feature for II5, Load Balancing, was mentioned w/o explaination on one page. waste of money.
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Summary: Did what it promised
Review: While not highly technical, the book delivered on its promise. With no experience, I installed IIS 5.0 on W2k Server and published a website. The whole process took about a day, including reading the book.
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Summary: There are no good IIS books
Review: You have to buy them all anyway so shut up and just do it. But somebody ought to start using editors (real ones!) and illustrators (lots of them) and present information in more ways than mere regurgitations of the software's HELP section. There has to be something better. Call me when you find it.
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