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CHAPTER 6 ■ DEPLOYING YOUR WEB SITE 151
to Express), but all of these tools have been carefully designed to minimize the impact on
deployment.
In this chapter, you looked at the deployment environment, using IIS and SQL Server
on Windows 2003, and what it takes to move a multitier application from the development
environment to the deployment one. The scenario we explored in this chapter took
a hands-on approach, covering most of what you’ll likely encounter in a real-world
deployment.
You followed a data-down deployment process, first configuring the database on the
server (i.e., installing AdventureWorks), and then adding the required credentials for your
application to sign into the database. If this isn’t deployed on your server already, go back
to Chapter 4 and follow the steps there. You then had your development-based service
sign into this database to ensure that it worked. Once this was achieved, you deployed
your service to the server. Once that was ready, you changed your client to point to this
service. Finally, you deployed your client web application to the server and made it available
to all users who can access the web server.
This chapter showed the power and flexibility of IIS and Windows as a web server
environment and how easy it is to build your applications and make them ready for public
consumption. Going beyond what you’ve learned in this chapter, you can look into
advanced server configuration, creating application pools and health monitoring, tweaking
the compilation models, using FTP and security, and much more. Many excellent
resources are available on these topics, both in book form (an excellent example being
Internet Information Services 6.0 Resource Kit, from Microsoft Press) and as Internet
resources, including, for example, MSDN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com) and TechNet
(http://technet.microsoft.com).