Now available for download: Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in

thomad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:28:41 GMT

We just made the Release Candidate of the IIS PowerShell Snap-in available. A lot of work was done between Tech Preview 2 and now. We focused mainly on augmenting the PowerShell Provider with almost 70 task-oriented cmdlets useful for day-to-day administrative tasks. Here is a quick categorization of the task-oriented cmdlets:

Mangement of Sites/Apps/Vdirs/AppPools (create/start/stop/remove/convert/recycle)
Management of site bindings (add/change/remove)
Management of Handlers and Modules/Managed Modules (add/change/remove)
Enablement of Request Tracing
Backup and Restore of IIS configuration
Locking/unlocking of sections/elements/attributes
Getting file system path for config files and web application content
Access to run-time data, e.g.
---Exploring currently executing requests
---AppDomain Management

I added a new walkthrough that uses some of the new task-oriented cmdlets. But there is an easier way to get started if you don’t want to read through the walkthrough. Just list the available cmdlets with

get-command -pssnapin WebAdministration

This will display all the cmdlets available in the IIS7 PowerShell Snap-in. To find help on how to use a particular cmdlet you just have to type

get-help <cmdletname>

For example:

get-help New-WebSite

get-help <cmdletname> –example

if you are only interested in an example how to use the cmdlet.

Have fun!

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Now available for download: Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in