Internet Information Server
Internet Information Server
(World-Wide Web)IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: fromworkgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPshosting websites that receive millions of hits per day.
Features include innovative web publishing, customisabletools, wizards, customisable management tools, flexibleadministration options, and analysis tools.
IIS makes it easy to share documents and information across acompany intranet or the Internet, and is completelyintegrated with Windows NT Directory Services.
IIS 1.0 was released for Windows NT 3.51 and had a limitedfeature set.
IIS 2.0 was released with Windows NT 4.0 with a similarfeature set to IIS 1.0.
IIS 3.0 quickly followed with many additions includingActive Server Pages (ASP), ISAPI and ADO 1.0.
IIS 4.0 is built into Windows NT Server 4.0. It includesASP 2.0, ISAPI and ADO 1.5.
http://microsoft.com/iis.
Rival servers include Apache and Netscape Enterprise Server.