Chapter 9: Administration Tasks

Overview

In addition to using the graphical user interface (GUI), you can administer IIS in several ways—through scripting, or even remotely, which eases administration, especially when multiple servers need to be configured. Some methods for administering IIS include the following:

• Using the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in

• Editing the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) metabase file

• Using the Active Directory Scripting Interface (ADSI) provider

• Using the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider

• Using the VBScript utilities provided with IIS

• Using the Web Administration Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) interface

  Note 

  The IIS MMC is covered in detail in Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5, so it won’t be covered in this chapter.