IIS Books

Editor's Pick - Microsoft Internet Information Server Resource Kit
Microsoft Corporation

This one is for serious IIS4 administrators/developers. The book handles almost all aspects of IIS issues like scalability, hardware requirements, fine-tuning etc. The book also comes with a CD containing a lot of useful components and filters (I like the Metabase editor utility the best). The book highlights some real world examples such as Microsoft web site to illustrate the infrastructure analysis.

Among a couple of things that other books won't tell you is the topic on fine-tuning ASP for high-traffic sites.

Running Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
Matthew Powell, Leon Braginski

A well written book, deserves some attention. The book clearly explains the IIS concepts such as Index server, Transaction server, MTS, MSMQ and ASP. For first time IIS users who want to know what IIS can offer. There are not many books on IIS that can make you feel that you have learnt something. This book one of those few which clearly explains all the concepts.

If you really want to know the plumbing behind IIS, I suggest you read the reviews for the Microsoft IIS Resource Kit (elsewhere on this page)

Internet Information Server 4 Adminitrator's Guide
Allen L. Wyatt, Garrett Peasei

The book is similar to the "Running MS IIS" book except that it is written is a lighter style with many pointers for administrators.