Any risk in installing IIS?

the ocmpany i work for wants to set up an intranet here int he office. just a simple website with policies and maybe a message board or something. The server here is running windows server 2003 and does not have IIS installed.

I have a server at home that has XP and IIS,PHP,MySQL and such... so im not new to this.

there is nothing SUPER important currently on the server here in the office but i really do not want to lose access to anything that is currently running on there.

So if i go ahead in install IIS is there a chance some of the current setting could be tampered with and prevent it from running how it is now (plus IIS).

just want to play it safe.

thanks

I've never seen any problems caused by installing IIS. But when you have IIS running, if http is exposed to the outside world you need to pay attention to your server security.

Doug G is perfectly right, you shouldnt see any issues & if there is a chance of been seen out in the wilderness(read Internet) then ensure you use at least a firewall. Make sure you keep your machine well patched too. Be careful as well as to who will be able to access the files up there.

Displeaser

Hi ,
I dont think you will be facing any kind of issues in installing iis in your enviornment, more over i think your company is just looking for an intranet site.
Check out this link which speaks how to secure your IIS
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/support/articles/sec_IIS_6_0.mspx

Jeethu Joseph
IIS/Asp.net Engineer Microsoft

thanks guys... i found the windows server 2003 disk and went ahead and installed it with no problems. i was just very worried the machine would need to be restarted. the server has been runnign for months non stop now. but it all went well and i got IIS running with php and mysql.