IIS 7 Remote Management Virtual Lab

I just ran across this Microsoft ISV Training Course that describes how to enable and use web application remote management.  IIS 7's remote management is a really cool way to allow non-administrator users privileges to administer their sites and applications without having to ask a machine administrator to delegated tasks for them.

According to the training, the difficulty is listed as 'Advanced' and the target audience is 'Technical', but I'm sure it'll be a breeze for people who frequent IIS.net.  What is cool about this lab is that the student has access to two virtual machines (a server and a client) and it doesn't require you to install anything locally to evaluate it.  If you want to try this out in a test environment, all you need is Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 installed and a client machine with IIS 7 Remote Manager installed.

The course itself exposes the students to Feature Delegation and the Management Service, which is essential for delegated administration of features.  If you feel that the material is too easy, try running through some of the additional scenarios that are available from Learn.IIS.Net. 

Allowing External Users to Manage IIS7 Web Applications

http://www.isvinnovation.com/Directory/Description.aspx?EventId=618

The ISV Lab Manual

http://download.microsoftvirtuallabs.com/download/8/a/7/8a71365b-4c80-4e60-8185-8f12f59bf1d4/AllowingExternalUserstoManageIIS7WebApplications.pdf

More Scenarios from Learn.IIS.net:

Managing IIS 7.0 Remotely

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  • I am Windows application devloper, we usually devlop application and post it that application in Click Once technology. Our previous server is Winows 2003, IIS 6.0, its worked fine. Recently we changed our server as Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.0. We try to configure our Click once tech. in the new server. Its sucessfully configured. I try to create a virtual directory in that server for post our application, but its given some error. Right click from Default web site and select the virtual directory, Create alias name and select the path of that directory. I select the directory from D:\Test in that system, Alias name was CADPCSystem. Usually after create that virtual directory some default folder of IIS will be created in that folder, but in my case it will not appear, if i browse that directory it will given error as "Server not awailable", can you please help and please provide the information how to set the authentication?

    At the creating virtual directoy, some error also occured in Authorization, the error was "The server is configured to use pass-through authentication with a built-in account to access the specified physical path. However, IIS Manager cannot verify whether the built-in account has access. Make sure that the application pool identity has

    Read access to the physical path. If this server is joined to a domain, and the application pool identity is NetworkService or LocalSystem, verify that \$ has Read access to the physical path. Then test these settings again."

    I set the following authentication in that server.

    Anonymous Authentication ---> Enabled

    ASP.NET Impersonation ---> Disabled

    Basic Authentication ---> Enabled

    Digest Authentication ---> Enabled

    Forms Authentication ---> Disabled

    Windows Authentication ---> Disabled

    Can you please provide solution for this.

    Thanks in advance.

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