Newsgroups make it easy for users in your organization to engage in discussions on various topics with each other and with users outside of the organization. Whether enabling a departmental newsgroup or providing a full feed of Internet newsgroups, the principals of setting up a news server are the same.
This section includes the following information:
| • | Creating NNTP Virtual Servers: Describes multiple-server strategies and how to create virtual Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers. |
| • | Creating Virtual Directories in IIS 6.0: Describes how to create and modify virtual directories. |
| • | Configuring NNTP Virtual Servers: Introduces the settings options for NNTP virtual servers. |
| • | Starting, Stopping, or Pausing NNTP Virtual Servers: Describes how to start, stop, and pause NNTP virtual servers and the difference between managing servers and services. |
| • | Starting, Stopping, or Pausing the NNTP Service: Describes how to start, stop, and pause NNTP services and how it differs from managing virtual servers. |
| • | NNTP Security: Introduces NNTP security concepts. |
| • | Managing Newsgroups: Introduces concepts in managing newsgroups including how to create, moderate, edit, delete, and configure them. |
| • | Configuring Expiration Policies: Describes how to set and modify newsgroup expiration policies. |