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Chapter 16 Solutions in this chapter: ■ Accomplishing Tasks Using IIS Manager ■ Accessing Information Using AppCmd.exe ■ Confi guring and Using Trace Log Data with AppCmd ■ Writing Scrip

Chapter 16

Solutions in this chapter:

■ Accomplishing Tasks Using IIS Manager

■ Accessing Information Using AppCmd.exe

■ Confi guring and Using Trace Log Data with AppCmd

■ Writing Scripts Using the New WMI Provider

■ Managed Code Administration:

Inside Microsoft.Web.Administration

˛ Summary

˛ Solutions Fast Track

˛ Frequently Asked Questions

Administration

of an IIS 7.0

Web Server

The IIS Manager of the past, albeit familiar by now, was clunky and diffi cult to familiarize yourself with The goals of the IIS 7.0 user interface took the strong points of the old MMC-based user interface and added intuitive, useful scenario-based usage patterns So out came the all-new IIS Manager, built to be task-based and extensible in order to ensure that Web administrators could tackle the most common tasks with little effort

For many, IIS Manager simply doesn’t scale since it isn’t capable of managing large Web farms where a multitude of Web servers exist for a single site or application The environments need more automated ways of making changes, and to do so as quickly, and with as few errors, as possible IIS 7.0 offers users a plethora of options in this space with AppCmd.exe, WMI, and Microsoft’s Web.Administration API for managed code

Accomplishing Tasks Using IIS Manager

With a rewritten user interface, the fi rst question that arises is how one can accomplish the same tasks using this new IIS Manager The IIS Manager included with IIS 7.0 gets away from tabs

(like IIS 6.0’s IIS Manager) and uses feature-based access for its confi guration To confi gure

the most popular features, a wizard will walk you through step-by-step instructions to fully enable the feature

It is important to understand how to do the most important tasks, such as creating new Web sites, application pools, and applications Beyond that, the most common task is to change the security settings and diagnostics settings using the IIS Manager

BEST PRACTICES ACCORDING TO MICROSOFT

The all-new IIS Manager is available for Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, and also for Windows Server “Codenamed” Longhorn To use IIS Manager on

Windows XP and Windows 2003, download the IIS Manager from www.iis.net/

downloads/default.aspx&tabid=3

IIS Manager: Getting Started

IIS Manager in IIS 7.0 gets away from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and instead

was built using NET’s Windows Form technology It offers most of the features available in

the IIS 6.0 Manager, yet accessing these features is drastically different Based on categories,

the features are easily exposed at different levels of IIS Manager, such as the server, site, or

application level

Beyond that, IIS Manager fully supports IIS 7.0’s delegation features at the various levels

A typical example of the delegation is allowing the server administrator to delegate

administration to other users such as modifying authentication, default document settings,

and much, much more

Lastly, IIS Manager is built using managed code and is constructed on a nicely formed

Web services architecture that allows developers to build custom modules and add them to IIS

Manager to help you better manage their custom features This is very useful for administrators

since you can do tasks in IIS Manager for built-in IIS features and also for custom applications

added later that are not part of IIS

The one downside to the new IIS Manager is that it only supports administering IIS 7.0 servers

It doesn’t support connecting to previous versions of IIS and making confi guration changes For

customers needing this functionality, you should install the IIS 6.0 Management Tools The end result

is that you can have both IIS Manager for IIS 6.0 as well as the new IIS Manager

The IIS Manager Overview

IIS Manager will always provide you with a view of only the objects you have permission to access These permissions, though, do not change the primary view you will always see when using IIS

Manager The user interface is divided into three columns, with a left, center, and right column

In the left column, you will always be presented with a tree hierarchy, as shown in Figure 16.1

Based on your selection in the left column, the appropriate screen will appear in the center column (Figure 16.2), often referred to as the home page The right column (Figure 16.3) is your task pane, offering you options based on your selection as well as helpful alerts, such as warning and

informational text

Figure 16.2 IIS Manager Center Column (e.g., Home Page)