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Lab 5 worksheet
Working with Firewalls, Encrypted File Systems (EFS) and User Account Control (UAC)

Exercise 5.1
Installing Internet Information Server
Overview

Because this is only a test deployment, you will be using a Windows 7 computer to function as the web server. In Exercise 5.1 you install Internet Information Services on your workstation and configure it to host two web sites.
Completion time
10 minutes

19. Take a screen shot of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager console, showing the new site you created, by pressing Alt+ Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the Lab05_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl + V.

Exercise 5.2
Testing IIS Connectivity
Overview

In Exercise 5.2, you test the functionality of the web server you just installed.
Completion time
20 minutes

Question 1
What is the result, and what does the result indicate?

Question 2
What is the result, and what does it indicate?

Question 3
What is the result?

Question 4
What is the result?

Question 5
List three possible reasons why you might be unable to connect to your computers web server using a browser on another computer.

Question 6
Why is it necessary to clear the cache before you retest the web server connections?

Question 7
What are the results, and what do the results indicate?

Question 8
What other test could you perform to prove that it was your computer’s firewall that was blocking the connection and not the firewall on the computer you are using as a client?

Question 9
Why can you not simply leave Windows Firewall turned off when you deploy an actual web server?

Exercise 5.3
Allowing a Program Through the Firewall
Overview

Windows Firewall is preventing clients from connecting to the