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• Find your way around IIS 7 configuration sections with AppCmd

  The IIS 7 configuration system contains 50+ configuration sections (100+ if you count .NET Framework configuration), 477 attributes, and 57 collections. This can make it pretty challenging to figure out exactly what IIS 7 configuration section needs to Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:36 PM by mvolo | 0 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd, Configuration

• Fastest way to create IIS7 websites, applications, and application pools

  IIS7 provides quite a few ways to create websites, applications, and application pools. You can use the GUI, but what if you need to create 10, 100, or even 10,000 websites? Read about the fastest way to create IIS7 websites in bulk at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/10/06/Create-IIS7-websites-and-application-pools-fast-with-AppCmd.aspx Read More... Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 11:14 PM by mvolo | 1 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd, Configuration

• Anatomy of an IIS7 configuration path

  If you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS metabase paths. You know, the ones that look like LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT . The concept of configuration paths changes significantly in IIS7 with the introduction Read More... Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:41 PM by mvolo | 0 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd, Configuration

• Creating IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories

  In the course of IIS7 development, the team and I have answered an infinity of questions about IIS7 on any possible topic imaginable. Ironically, neither I nor anyone else I know on the team has ever answered the most basic question - what is the minimum Read More... Posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:44 PM by mvolo | 0 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd

• Do complex IIS management tasks easily with AppCmd command piping

  As much as I hate to re-post someone else's content, I've been real busy in the past few weeks and havent had a chance to post new stuff - and today I saw Kanwal's post on a very near and dear subject of mine: AppCmd command pipelining. The post covers Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:01 PM by mvolo | 1 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd

• Most Important AppCmd Commands: Backing up and restoring IIS7 configuration

  Welcome to the first post of the "Most Important AppCmd Commands" series. Have you ever made some changes to a system's state, and then after everything suddenly stopped working, wondered how the hell you are going to get back to a working state? Well, Read More... Posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:05 PM by mvolo | 0 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd

• Most Important AppCmd Commands

  Usually, a day doesnt go by that I dont get a collegue or a partner team in Microsoft asking how to do something or other about AppCmd.exe, the unified command line management tool for the IIS7 server. For a while, I've been thinking about blogging about Read More... Posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:04 PM by mvolo | 0 Comments Filed under: IIS7, AppCmd