1 don't work as advertised. If you are running a production environment, you might want to consider holding off moving to XP until the server is out of its beta stages. This would allow you to have the same code that runs on your desktop test station functioning on the server without any changes. Keep on trying While IIS 5. 1 is a little better than 5. 0, you should only use it if you are on the bleeding edge and are moving to server in the coming months. With the API inconsistencies and connection limits of being only a workstation server, you could not and should not use IIS 5. 1 for your main Web site. However, it does serve plain old HTML quite nicely and hasn't crashed on me yet doing just that.
Microsoft finally addressed and fixes this problem with IIS 5. 1 You can also now export your metabase and import it on a different system. Exactly how to do this is beyond the scope of this article, but it's a nice feature that will make moving your Web site to other versions of IIS much easier. However, I still prefer to use MetaEdit to extract, edit, and import metabases. VBScript issues Windows XP ships with VBScript 5. 6, which has problems with code written for 5. 5. What specific problems does VBScript 5. 6 have with scripts written for VBScript 5. 5? Good question. Microsoft doesn't let you in on that secret—it just says there are "some incompatibilities" that may cause your system to crash or display an access violation Blue Screen. You can correct this problem by downloading and installing a patch from Microsoft's Support Web site. I haven't yet upgraded my everyday workstation to XP for this reason. Microsoft's lack of forthrightness on this issue raises the question about what other features of IIS 5.
I've always been of the opinion that if a software vendor is going to significantly change the way a program works, they should increase the major version number and not the minor. Microsoft follows this theory with IIS 5. 1 With IIS 5. 1, Microsoft has added only a few small changes that will affect how you send e-mail if you use Collaborative Data Objects for NT Server (CDONTS) or if you have no other 5. 0 servers you are using. CDONTS The feature of CDONTS in Windows 2000 and NT4 allows a script to use a SMTP server from a Web page. This allows you to send e-mail from your Web site with a very quick command. Since CDONTS is very small and works quite well, a lot of sample scripts that you find available on the Internet use it to send e-mail. The big surprise is that Microsoft has killed off CDONTS. Rather than use this tried-and-true method, Microsoft replaced it with CDOSYS. CDOSYS is the supported standard in IIS 5. 0, IIS 5. 1, and IIS 6. 0 in Windows 2000, XP, and to send e-mail from a Web page.