Bill Houle wrote:
> I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person. I run NT on my
> desktop. (No, Rich, that is not an oxymoronic pair of statements. :)
> I have found NT-on-the-desk to be an easy transition to make from
> the days win Win3/Win95. I have some experience with our Exchange and
> NT workgroup servers, and they too, have not exactly been all bad.
> But...(and I think I said this before) I have found IIS/SiteServer
> to be the most confusing piece of junk that I have ever seen.
>
> Getting content on IIS out of the box was trivial. But to make it do
> anything more than the basics has resulted in irritation and
> swelling. Perhaps my long-term exposure to NCSA/Apache has put me in
> an uncorrectbale mindset, but I really have been frustrated.
> Ease-of-use? Yeah, right. Another friend [at another company] whose
> skills I respect is having similar issues. And he has been Win-centric
> for most his life, so I know it can't just be me/us. Can it?
I second this. I needed IIS for two actual processes: web service and
the MS ULS (MS will no longer provide just the ULS for
download--everything is "integrated" now). With Site Server 3.0, a 75
MEG DOWNLOAD (!! total BS), I had to install about a dozen servers I
didn't need. After three weeks of struggling with the damn thing, we
deleted it.
We went to Borders and asked to browse around in the basement. Found a
box of old MS books, and sure enough we found old (standalone,
"unintegrated") versions of IIS and ULS on CD in the back of books.
They gave them to use for about 90% off :)
In the end they worked, used about 900% less disk space, cost about
9000% less, and did only what we wanted them to.
Site Server is not easy to use. It's overkill, bundles tons of
worthless crap, and if you had to configure it by feeding it punch cards
it would probably make it *easier* to use :P I get the feeling this is
MS's way of trying to match *nix services they couldn't cram into the
last release of NT . . . they just crammed them here instead.
Brett
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