My posts tagged with "AppCmd" (RSS)

Finding 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...

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...

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 . These metabase paths serve as a mechanism to identify a part of the IIS website hierarchy...

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...

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...

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...

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