Accessing Microsoft.Web.Administration through PowerShell (Part I)
I've caught the PowerShell bug. In between stints with my ever-expanding code samples, I play with PowerShell a lot. I thought I'd share a quick example of how to load Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and use it to perform some basic tasks.
Note: I'm running these samples on Windows Vista RTM, but I have no reason to believe this will not work on the PowerShell release candidates for the Vista RC* builds that are available now.
So let's get started.
First, PowerShell has no idea where Microsoft.Web.Administration.DLL is so you have to tell it how to load it. Anyone who has written code to dynamically load an assembly should be familiar with this syntax. Type the following command
PS C:\> [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom( "C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll" )
The path to your assembly may change depending on your install. I'll show you later how to use environment variables to calculate the correct path. In the mean time the out put of the line above display something like the following:
GAC Version Location
--- ------- --------
True v2.0.50727 C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.Web.Administration\7.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft....
Once the assembly is loaded you can use PowerShell's "New-Object" command to create a ServerManager object that is defined in Microsoft.Web.Administration.
PS C:\> (New-Object Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager)
( blog post continued on IIS.NET ... )
