I was contemplating getting a dedicated Windows 2K server, and wondered if anyone knew of a good reference manual for taking care of it. W2K itself is familiar enough, but I have no experience with managing an exclusive web/email server with a goal of high uptime, or administering it remotely.

A guide would be helpful to what care and feeding is advisable, and how frequently; whether any essential tasks cannot be done remotely with pcAnywhere or similar, etc.

(The server will not be used for reselling virtual hosting accounts.)

-- Thanks

The MS website has a lot of great resources (you just have to hunt for them, unless you read this post and see all of these nifty URLs)

IIS resources:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/iis/Default.asp

IIS newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/default.asp?url=/technet/newsgroups/NodePages/iis.asp?frame=true

Books about IIS and windows:
http://search.microsoft.com/us/products/mspress/default.asp?SearchString=iis&SearchExtent=books%7Ctopic&SearchLogic=smart&PageSize=10&SortBy=rank&Go_button.x=12&Go_button.y=13

IIS 'insider':
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/insider/default.asp?frame=true

ASP development 'best practices'
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnserv/html/server122799.asp

Dan