After reading this book, it is obvious to me the this author is highly competent technically, and also a very skillful writer.
If you ingnore the title, then I feel that this is a well written and informative book.
Unfortunately, I feel it had very little to do with IIS administration. The cover declares it to be a "COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE", don't believe it.
This book is a very good introduction to web page design, with chapters on Frontpage 98 and Visual Interdev, while IIS installation is relegated to a mere appendix.
More than the first half of the book chapters are classed into categories such as "Developing Basic Web Site Content", etc. , and while it may be useful to many IIS admins who also happen to develop their site. It is not in my opinion, what IIS Admininstration is all about.