Reduce administration time by learning a single interface. Add Snap-in components to manage additional services and applications as your web site grows. IIS 4.0 includes snap-ins for WWW, FTP, SMTP, NNTP, Microsoft Transaction Server and Microsoft Index Server services. The MMC lets you create custom consoles and delegate certain administration tasks while providing local and remote management capabilities for a single Web server or a farm of Web servers. An innovative Web-based administration tool designed using Active Server Pages and Jscript that can be viewed with any browser supporting scripting and frames.
Administrators can manage their Web servers remotely over the network using a standard Web browser.
The HTML Administration is built with Active Server Pages, so you can look at the ASP files to both understand how they were developed, and use them as a starting point for developing your own customized administration interface. Programmers can set all of the configuration parameters of IIS and to control its operation. IIS 4.0 includes a set of sample scripts that automate common administrative tasks. This includes scripts to create, start, stop, pause and resume Web and ftp sites, create and remove virtual directories, control directory access settings, and utilities to display the configuration hierarchy, and search for specific configuration information. Complete content control IIS 4.0 provides complete flexibility and control over the property settings of the Web server and individual Web sites.