Published: 06 Jun 2011
By: Scott Forsyth

This week's video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server. Week 23 of a 52 week series.

Securing IIS is a necessary step that every web administrator needs to perform to properly prepare their web server with the best configuration. This week’s video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server. We cover the application pool identity, the anonymous user, the new IIS 7.0/7.5 setting for the anonymous user, and more.

This is week 23 of a 52 week series for the Web Pro. This week’s topic is foundational in properly understanding the security sandbox boundaries in IIS.

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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 48 articles on DotNetSlackers. View other articles or the complete profile here.

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