How to Learn about IIS Lockdown

We know that the IIS server can be used independently as a Web server or with compatible tools. In this article, we will learn about IIS Lockdown 2.1.

Is IIS Lockdown 2.1 available from a http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp? Releaseid = 33961 download. Download IIS lockd.exe and double-click it to run it. decompress it to a temporary directory and start the IIS Lockdown Wizard.

However, if you want to use IIS Lockdown to protect multiple servers, it is best to extract it to a dedicated directory as described below, so that you do not have to re-decompress IIS Lockdown every time you run it.

Note that the downloaded file is a self-decompressed execution file, which is the same as the application execution file in the compressed package. Therefore, if you extract IIS lockd.exe to its own directory, it will cause a file name conflict. Follow the steps below to avoid possible problems:

(I) download IIS lockd.exe to a temporary directory.

(2) Open the console window, enter the temporary directory, and run the command "IIS lockd.exe/q/c/t: c: \ IIS Lockdown" To uncompress the data./q requires "quiet" mode, /c requires that IIS Lockdown only Extract files and use it with the-t option. The-t option specifies the directory to which the file is to be decompressed, for example, in this example, decompress the file to the c: \ IIS Lockdown directory ).

Table 1 lists the main files extracted by IIS lockd.exe. Note that IIS lockd.exe contains the URLScan file, but this article does not discuss URLScan in detail.

Table 1: Main IIS Lockdown 2.1 files
 

 
 

  
  
IIS Lockdown file description
  
  
IIS lockd.exe IIS Lockdown main execution file.
  
  
IIS lockd. ini configuration and option files.
  
  
IIS lockd. chm online help.
  
  
Runlockdunattended.doc documentation on the "unattended" running mode.
  
  
404. dll "file not found" response file.
  
  
URLScan file description
  
  
Urlscan.exe URLScan installation package.
  
  
Urlscan.doc URLScan document.
  
  
Urlscan *. ini configuration and option files.
  
  
Urlscan_unattend.txt install the URLScan configuration file in unattended mode.
  
  
Readme.txt instructions on running URLScan in unattended mode
  
  
Unattend. cmd the command file for installing URLScan in unattended mode.
 
 

This is the introduction to IIS Lockdown 2.1.