IIS - Other - URL Redirection and Intranet

Hello,

Pardon the extremely newbie question - but I don't know much about IIS or intranets, so of course- my boss gives me a task that deals with our corporate intranet! Oh well, good way to learn!

We are using IIS 6.0 to run our intranet. We would like to be able to have our users type in a department name in the URL and have them be redirected to the department webpage. E.g the user types in QA and is redirected the Quality Assurance page on the intranet.

I'd appreciate if someone could tell me (step by step if you have the patience!) as to how enable this.

Thanks!
Joan

You'll need to do a couple of things.

In IIS you'll need to create a new website for each dept. You'll need to set the host header to the dept name ie marketing, finance, etc

Then...

You'll need to add a DNS record on your local DNS server. Make a new A Record, in host name type marketing and for the IP use the ip of the webserver. You'll need to add a one A Record for each individual website/host header you have.

You may need to reboot local machines to grab the updated dns settings, or of course do ipconfig /flushdns at the command line.

Perfect, thanks for your help! Joan

Hi,
Instead of creating each website, you can create virtual directories in the same web site. so, that you'll have the same website, same url and also u need to create only one record in DNS.

each department can access their own directory by typing their department name with the same url with extension of their depart name( which was created as virtual directory before)