How to Setup Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows XP

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IIS will now install. Once it is complete, click Finish. Close the Add or Remove Programs and the Control Panel. IIS is now installed.

At this point, I recommend running Windows Update. IIS is a major application and may have some patches since your installation CD was released. Once you have updated your machine, reboot.

Open the Control Panel and double-click on Administrative Tools. You have a new icon there labeled Internet Information Services.

Open this icon and you will be able to manage IIS.

IIS is managed through a standard MMC add-in. The interface for managing IIS is very similar to managing any other component in Windows XP Professional.

If you open the computer name there, in the example it's WINXPWS001, you will see something similar to this screenshot:

Here you can see the Web Sites, FTP Sites, and SMTP server entries.

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