We Need Your Feedback

Greetings from across the pond. This week I'm traveling abroad splitting my time between work and the never-ending search for the perfect bitter.

This week, I want to turn the tables a bit and ask for YOUR opinion. Please take a few moments to review the following questions, then post your replies in the reader comment section to the right of this article. Your feedback will help us produce a more informative and useful newsletter.

Is your employer a private company, a dot-com, a Web-hosting provider, an ISP, a government agency, or education/academia?
Which version of IIS do you run: IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, or IIS 6.0 (Windows 2002 Server beta)?
Do you run or support any of the following .NET servers: Intranet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Site Server 3.0, Commerce Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, or Application Center 2000? If so, which ones?
How many IIS servers do you support?
Which Web-server topics should we give additional attention in IIS Administrator UPDATE?
Which Web-server topics should we give less attention in IIS Administrator UPDATE?
Which technical conferences do you attend?
How much time do you spend developing applications or content for the Web?
Which IIS-related technologies have recently attracted your interest?
Would you prefer to receive IIS Administrator UPDATE in text or HTML format?
Do you prefer to have all the content in the e-newsletter or a summary-and-link approach?

Thanks for your feedback.

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1. Is your employer a private company, a dot-com, a Web-hosting
provider, an ISP, a government agency, or education/academia?
Private Company
 

2. Which version of IIS do you run: IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, or IIS 6.0
(Windows 2002 Server beta)?

IIS 4, IIS 5
 
3. Do you run or support any of the following .NET servers: Internet
Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Site Server 3.0, Commerce
Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, or Application Center 2000? If so,
which ones?

ISA
 
4. How many IIS servers do you support?
4
 
5. Which Web-server topics should we give additional attention in IIS
Administrator UPDATE?

Application development and deployment
 

6. Which Web-server topics should we give less attention in IIS
Administrator UPDATE?
 

7. Which technical conferences do you attend?

Microsoft PDC
 
8. How much time do you spend developing applications or content for
the Web?

80%
 
9. Which IIS-related technologies have recently attracted your
interest?

.NET, SOAP,UDDI,XML,DHTML,
 
10. Would you prefer to receive IIS Administrator UPDATE in text or
HTML format?

HTML
 
11. Do you prefer to have all the content in the e-newsletter or a
summary-and-link approach?

Summary and link 

Todd Warnes May 22, 2001

Is your employer a private company, a dot-com, a Web-hosting provider, an ISP, a government agency, or education/academia?
Web Hosting Provider - We host the web sites that we create for our customers
 
Which version of IIS do you run: IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, or IIS 6.0 (Windows 2002 Server beta)?
IIS 5.0
 
Do you run or support any of the following .NET servers: Intranet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Site Server 3.0, Commerce Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, or Application Center 2000? If so, which ones?
No
 
How many IIS servers do you support?
4 (2 production, 1 development, 1 internal)
 
Which Web-server topics should we give additional attention in IIS Administrator UPDATE?
um...
 
Which Web-server topics should we give less attention in IIS Administrator UPDATE?
err....
 
Which technical conferences do you attend?
TechEd
 
How much time do you spend developing applications or content for the Web?
That is our main business function, so probably around 90% of our time.
 
Which IIS-related technologies have recently attracted your interest?
.NET plus it's related components (soap/UDDI/ASP.NET/ADO.NET/etc)
 
Would you prefer to receive IIS Administrator UPDATE in text or HTML format?
HTML
 
Do you prefer to have all the content in the e-newsletter or a summary-and-link approach?
Within the email 

Beric Holt May 22, 2001

1. Education: University. 
2. We run both IIS 4.0 & 5.0. 
3. Do not curently support/run .NET servers. 
4. Support approx. 4 IIS servers for our division. 
5. IIS 4.0 & 5.0 should be focused on because we do not plan to move up for at least 1 - 2 years. 
6. None.... all is good information. 
7. Do not have time to attend conferences. However, if I do , I would attend Microsoft Technet. 
8. Approx. 3 hours per month. 
9. Use of Frontpage Server Extensions. 
10. No preference as long as it is brief (when possible) and to the point. 
11. summary and link. 

Albert Chen May 22, 2001

Find an easier way to get responses to a complex list of questions. 

George Gadbois May 22, 2001

Answers to questions in Newsletter: 

1. We offer web hosting services 
2. Currently are using IIS 4.0 on NT 4.0 sp6. Researching upgrading to 2000 Server 
3. No 
4. Currently 1 server. Possibly expanding when we upgrade. 
5. More articles on Securing NT/2000, IIS 4.0/5.0 and the ASP scripts/applications
that run on the server. 
6. Haven't notice an area that has been covered too much. 
7. Haven't attended any conferences lately 
8. Most of my time is spent on development and maintenance of ASP's. 
9. Performance gains from IIS 5.0 and Windows 2000 server. 
10. HTML 
11. Summary and link approach 

Thank you

Jim Watters May 22, 2001

1. Is your employer a private company, a dot-com, a Web-hosting
provider, an ISP, a government agency, or education/academia?

GOVERNMENT (STATE) 

2. Which version of IIS do you run: IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, or IIS 6.0
(Windows 2002 Server beta)?

IIS 5.0 

3. Do you run or support any of the following .NET servers: Internet
Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Site Server 3.0, Commerce
Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, or Application Center 2000? If so,
which ones?

Nope 

4. How many IIS servers do you support?

5 

5. Which Web-server topics should we give additional attention in IIS
Administrator UPDATE?

IIS TIPS AND TRICKS 

6. Which Web-server topics should we give less attention in IIS
Administrator UPDATE?

? 

7. Which technical conferences do you attend?

Not many. (ok, none) 

8. How much time do you spend developing applications or content for
the Web?

about 20-30 hours a week 

9. Which IIS-related technologies have recently attracted your
interest?

ASP+ / ASP.NET VB 6.0 

10. Would you prefer to receive IIS Administrator UPDATE in text or
HTML format?

text. takes up less space in my inbox 

11. Do you prefer to have all the content in the e-newsletter or a
summary-and-link approach?

enough content in the email that I can get a grip on what the article is about,
but more on the web site. 

KM May 22, 2001

response to survey 

1. currently not employed 
2. running iis 5.1 (included in windows whistler beta 2) 
3. none of mentioned .net services are run or supported 
4. currently, 1 iis server is supported 
5. security 
6. dont know 
7. none 
8. much time 
9. sql server, isa, .net in general 
10. html 
11. all content in the newsletter 

tim May 22, 2001

1. Is your employer a private company, a dot-com, a Web-hosting
provider, an ISP, a government agency, or education/academia?

private (software) company + (very small) Hosting provider 

2. Which version of IIS do you run: IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, or IIS 6.0
(Windows 2002 Server beta)?

IIS 4.0 

3. Do you run or support any of the following .NET servers: Internet
Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Site Server 3.0, Commerce
Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, or Application Center 2000? If so,
which ones?

None. But Linux Firewalls / Proxy Server / Gateway 

4. How many IIS servers do you support?

4 

5. Which Web-server topics should we give additional attention in IIS
Administrator UPDATE?

i like it the way it is ! 

6. Which Web-server topics should we give less attention in IIS
Administrator UPDATE?

i like it the way it is ! 

7. Which technical conferences do you attend?

none. 

8. How much time do you spend developing applications or content for
the Web?

2-8 h/Week 

9. Which IIS-related technologies have recently attracted your
interest?

vb.net 

10. Would you prefer to receive IIS Administrator UPDATE in text or
HTML format?

Text 

11. Do you prefer to have all the content in the e-newsletter or a
summary-and-link approach?

Everything in the newsletter. This way I can read it offline. 

John Mueller May 22, 2001

1. a private company 
2. IIS 5.0 
3. none 
4. 3 
5. can't say; I like being being surprised anyway 
6. can't say... 
7. Tech-Ed and a few MS workshops 
8. about 2 days in a week 
9. ISA 
10. text 
11. summary-and-link approach 

Errol Atterbury May 22, 2001

1. private company and government agency 
2. IIS 5.0 
3. ISA 
4. 3 
5. - 
6. - 
7. - 
8. ~25% 
9. ASP 
10. text or possiblity to select 
11. all the content 

Kirill Yermalovich May 23, 2001

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