From: "Gary Britt" 

Why don't you just outsource the server setup/security stuff by using a
dedicated server or virtual dedicated server from a good hosting company.
Its so cheap these days its almost not worth trying to learn to roll your
own??

Gary

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:43769852$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I am working on a server app that will have to be deployed in a few weeks.
No one
> else involved knows MS servers any better than I do and I'm looking at
learning how
> to install a Win 2003 server.
>
> So how hard is it to install the server, install IIS, configure stuff for
security,
> and all that? How many hours to learn all one needs to leanr to put a Win
box on the
> internet as a server?
>
> I do not have the box or OS disk yet Any documents on the internet I ought
to read to
> get up to speed on how to do this?

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