Books on Windows Server 2003 Web Edition

[chrigil]

Can anyone suggest where I might find a book on the workings of Windows Server 2003 Web Edition?
All the book available for Windows 2003 in its various flavours simply tell me that 'The Web Edition is significantly different and is NOT covered in this book.'

Well if it is so different why can I not find any books on it?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated,



Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[pjcarmen]

Is it that different really? I know it lacks the ability to be any sort of domain controller, and that IIS is installed by default. I could be wrong, i've only been working with 2k3 web and Std. for a couple months...



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[dkediger]

Yeah - I don't think its that different - just Standard Server crippled so it can't be a domain controller and so that other Microsoft Server apps won't install.

It can join a domain however and use domain authentication, ASP.Net and .Net Frameworks will run/install. I've installed PHP as well as a brief instance of MSDE for testing.

 

[chrigil]

Thanks for the replies guys.

Hey dkediger, you say you've installed PHP, .Net and MSDE etc. I've seen from the specs that Microsoft Quote: 'Installations of non-Web serving applications are prohibited'. From what you say though I could probably install SQL Server 2000 although I wouldn't get away with Visual Studio etc. This isn't a problem as I wouldn't really want apps on the same machine but it's nice to know where I stand.

Also, again according to MS Quote: '10 in-bound server message block (SMB) connections for content publishing.'
Can you tell me what this means in english? It's not limited to 10 conections is it a la Windows XP Pro I assume?

Thanks again


Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[dkediger]

Well, actually the .Net Frameworks and ASP.Net could be considered as part of IIS6/Server 2003 platform so in reality they aren't separate apps.

SQLServer would be a no-no. I don't know if it would be on the honor system, or if there is code in Web Server that prevents installation. I run Web Server in an SBS environment, so my SQLServer is on the main SBS server and the install program for that is crippled so it won't install anywhere other than on an SBS server - so I can't test that out.

I would imagine the forthcoming "Basic" freeware version of SQLServer 2005 would probably act the same as MSDE though and be allowed to install on Web Server.