Remotely Administering IIS with Command Line Utilities

[Bill Moore]

Remotely Administering IIS with Command Line Utilities

It is pretty easy to remotely administer IIS with the command line utilities from Microsoft:

Create a web site: iisweb /create
Delete a web site: iisweb /delete
Start a web site: iisweb /start
Stop a web site: iisweb /stop
Pause a web site: iisweb /pause
List web sites on the server: iisweb /query

Create a web virtual directory: iisvdir /create
Delete a web virtual directory: iisvdir /delete
List web virtual directories on the server: iisvdir /query

Backup the IIS configuration: iisback /backup
Restore the IIS configuration: iisback /restore
Delete backup IIS configurations: iisback /delete
List backup IIS configurations: iisback /list
Copy IIS configurations: iiscnfg /copy
Import IIS configurations: iiscnfg /import
Export IIS configurations: iiscnfg /export
Save IIS configurations to disk: iiscnfg /save

There are other commands, such as isiftp, isiftpdr, isiext and isiapp, but these are the ones I use the most.

Bill