Additional Resources
These resources contain additional information and tools related to this chapter.
Related Information
"Ensuring Application Availability" in this book for information about configuring your Web server to improve the availability of your ASP.NET applications.
"IIS Deployment Procedures" in this book for information about specific procedures for deploying ASP.NET applications in IIS 6.0.
"Migrating Machine.config Attributes to IIS 6.0 Metabase Property Settings" in "Upgrading an IIS Server to IIS 6.0" in this book for information about how to migrate attributes in the Machine.config file to their equivalent IIS 6.0 metabase property settings.
"Securing Web Sites and Applications" in this book for information about configuring your Web server to improve the security of your ASP.NET applications.
The Microsoft Knowledge Base link on the Web Resources page at [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources], and then search for article 329290, "How To: Use the ASP.NET Utility to Encrypt Credentials and Session State Connection Strings", for information about configuring ASP.NET to store the session connection strings in the registry.
The MSDN Online link on the Web Resources page at [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources], and then search for "How to allocate handles and connect to SQL Server (ODBC)", for information about creating ODBC data connection strings for Microsoft SQL Server.
The MSDN Online link on the Web Resources page at [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources], and then search for "testing", for information about the general subject of testing.
Related IIS 6.0 Help Topics
"ASP.NET Configuration" in IIS 6.0 Help, which is accessible from IIS Manager, for information about configuring ASP.NET applications when IIS 6.0 is configured to run in IIS 5.0 isolation mode.
"Troubleshooting" in IIS 6.0 Help, which is accessible from IIS Manager, for information about how to troubleshoot Web sites that fail to start.
"Troubleshooting an ASP.NET Installation" in IIS 6.0 Help, which is accessible from IIS Manager, for information about how to troubleshoot ASP.NET-specific problems.
Related Windows Server 2003 Help Topics
For best results in identifying Help topics by title, in Help and Support Center, under the Search box, click Set search options. Under Help Topics, select the Search in title only check box.
"Features unavailable on 64-bit versions of the Windows Server 2003 family" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for information about features, such as ASP.NET, that are not supported on 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003.
"Managing resource records" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for information about how to create DNS entries for your applications.