Rating: 
Summary: Excellent resource
Review: Other readers have given this book five stars and for good reason IMHO. If you are a real world administrator, this is the best book to have. This book does present a lot of in-depth information you need as well as great information for everyday administration. Thorough, detailed, and I must say accurate examination of the topics without being boring. Most helpful to me were the chapters on customizing IIS, performance tuning, tracking and optimization. A great index makes this an excellent reference book too.
Rating: 
Summary: Not as good.
Review: That book isn't as good as it 'sounds'. Basically it doesn't have anything you can't find on the internet for free ;). I'm not a quite 'fan' of Windows at all, that includes IIS, but still it's always good to have book like that one next to you just to make sure you don't forget anything. Even though i gave this book 3 stars, i still think that it is really worth reading.
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Summary: MORE USELESS Information
Review: This book contains all pages from the already poor Microsoft documentaion - nothing more. You get NOTHING more. It is a big waste of money. Search the help files for identical info. As with most Microsoft help books... it doesn't help.
Rating:
Summary: This book is useless
Review: This book is next to useless. I don't find it any more helpful than the on-line help provided with IIS. I can safely say that every issue I've ever had with IIS was better solved by searching on Google. Don't waste your money.
Rating:
Summary: Great book, but mostly GUI only
Review: This is a great book if you have one server.
Pros:Clear language to explain what to do: click here...
Cons:Not covering the scripts for repetitive tasks
(like add new user,...).
If you don't mind the extra weight and money, please take a look
at Mark Minasi's Mastering Windows 2000 Server (4th Edition).
Rating: 
Summary: Extended Help!
Review: This is a truncated help extension of what's already coming with the product, it works as a "how to" configure things inside IIS, poor in explaining concepts and what it means, you have to already understand the subject fully then depend on this guide as a one place how to, this is not what i was searching for.
Rating: 
Summary: A very good book but difficult to read
Review: Well, this book is very good and it has all the information about IIS 5.0.
If you are beginning in IIS, I think you could buy
"IIS 5.0 a beginner's guide" instead of this because is more
difficult
Rating:
Summary: # 1in my book
Review: Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant is the most useful IIS book I've ever bought. I use this book more than any other, so glad the cover is thick and the spine capable of handling a beating. The rounded corners are good so that the corners don't curl/bend like on other books. I found the detailed information to be very good and in most cases there's more information in this book than in the huge references I used to use. Excellent resource and highly recommended.
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Summary: Most comprehensive guide to IIS available
Review: Wow! This book is incredible....Until now I had been looking for a good book in IIS and wasn't able to find one then I happned to see this one. I must say it is the most complete IIS book that I have ever found. I have found many chapters that by themselves were worth the price of the book take chapter 4 for example that covers customizing IIS. In that signle chapter Mr. Stanek provides a detailed guide to understanding how ISAPI/ASP applications works and how you can optimize IIS for various needs. He provides a step by step detailed examination of pooling impact on memory/CPU usage and then details how to customize the environment for pooled and nonpooled applications. After thatm he goes into how you can map custom application extensions, manage session state, control buffering and more. He even details how to unload applications from memory then finishes the chapter by providing a fewe additional customization tips, like how to create an update site that can be displayed while you are updating a primary site, how to create advertising jump pages and how to create customized 404 error pages. Again, I must say WOW because that is only one chapter in a book filled with such chapters. This book is incredible and the only person that would every say it wasn't is someone who doesn't want other administrators to have these secrets. I use this book to help me manage our corporate web site and I've never found a question that it couldn't answers. I highly recommend this book.
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