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Introduction

Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 is a powerful Web server that provides a highly reliable, manageable, and scalable Web application infrastructure for all versions of Windows Server 2003. IIS helps organizations increase Web site and application availability while lowering system administration costs. IIS 6.0 supports the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) with automated health monitoring, process isolation, and improved management capabilities.

IIS is needed by many products such as WSUS and SQL. The purpose of this tutorial is to install IIS for these purposes. This tutorial will not go into how to setup websites using IIS.

Installation

1. To install IIS you must first open up the control panel and then open Add or Remove Programs

2. Click the Add/Remove Windows Components button

3. Highlight Application Server and click the details button

4. Place a checkmark next to Internet Information Services (IIS) and click the OK button

5. Click the Next button

6. Windows will start to configure the selected items

7. Windows may ask you for your installation disk. Insert the disk and click OK.

8. Windows will continue to install the selected components

9. Once complete close all open windows. IIS is now installed.

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