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Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook

By : Ashraf Khan
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Book Image

Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Ashraf Khan

Overview of this book

This book will start with customizing your IIS 10 to various platforms/OS and tune it according to your business requirements. Moving on, we will focus on the functionalities of core fundamentals and perform practical scenarios in order to maximize the use of a reliable web server. Going further we will be covering topics like IIS 10 architecture, IIS modules,hosting web server platforms, virtual directories along with web site deployment, ports, enhanced security. We will also cover new features of IIS 10 like integration with Windows Server 2016 and Nano Server, HTTP/2, PowerShell 5 cmdlets etc . Towards the end, we will cover troubleshooting & diagnostic techniques of IIS 10. By the end of this book you will be well versed with maximizing the reliability of your webserver and will have immense knowledge in using IIS 10 effectively
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Creating an SSL certificate

In this recipe, we are going to open IIS Manager WIN2016IIS and create an SSL certificate on the local server WIN2016IIS.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running IIS 10.0 server and an administrator account, which will be used to make changes in IIS 10.0.

How to do it...

  1. Go to WIN2016IIS and log in to the IIS 10.0 server. Open the Server Manager, and go to the Tools menu.
  2. Open IIS Manager and click on WIN2016IIS, as shown here:
  1. Go to the Actions pane and click on Create Self-Signed Certificate. We are using this...