IIS FTP is a powerful application, but some of the flexibility is hidden through a unique convention based method of management. It’s easy to miss the fact that IIS FTP allows the ability to have multiple users who can be directed to different folders and be fully isolated from each other. For example, you can have a designer1 who has access to the whole site while designer2 has access to just project1 only and if you set it up correctly you can feel confident that designer2 can’t gain more access than they are allowed.

With IIS FTP it takes understanding a few core principles to manage this effectively and to ensure that you don’t overlook key security settings that would allow users to gain more access than they should. IIS FTP 7.5 offers five different isolation modes, each of which targets a different situation.

This is week 46 of a 52 week series, and the 3nd of a 5 week mini-series on IIS FTP.

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About Scott Forsyth

Senior Systems Engineer at ORCS Web, Inc (www.orcsweb.com) and co-founder of Vaasnet (www.vaasnet.com). Microsoft MVP for IIS. ASPInsider. Strengths are IIS, ASP.NET, DNS, Windows Server, and Hyper-V. This author has published 50 articles on DotNetSlackers. View other articles or the complete profile here.