Securing IIS7 - Windows Server 2008 Security Guide

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide is out.

It covers many crucial aspects but my favorite of course is IIS7 chapter:

Chapter 6: Hardening Web Services

This chapter provides prescriptive guidance for hardening the Web Server role. The chapter discusses how the Web server role installs Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, which has been redesigned into forty modular components that you can choose to install as needed.

It points to the following resources:

• IIS 7.0: Configuring Authentication in IIS 7.0
• IIS 7.0: Configuring IPv4 Address and Domain Name Rules
• IIS 7.0: Configuring URL Authorization Rules in IIS 7.0
• IIS 7.0: Configuring Server Certificates in IIS 7.0
• IIS 7.0: Configuring ISAPI and CGI Restrictions in IIS 7.0
• IIS 7.0: Configuring Secure Sockets Layer in IIS 7.0
• IIS 7.0: Configuring Request Filters
• IIS 7.0: Configuring Shared Configuration
• How to Setup SSL on IIS7.
• How to Use Request Filtering.
• Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures.
• IIS 7.0: Configure Web Server Security.
• Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server 2008 Step-By-Step Guide.
• Windows Management Instrumentation.
• Windows Server 2008 Technical Library.
• Understanding IIS7 URL Authorization.