IIS Admin Base Object

You can administer your Internet Information Server (IIS) installation by using the IIS Admin Base Object. The IIS Admin Base Object is a fully-distributable component object model (COM) object that implements the IMSAdminBase interface, with methods that enable your application to manipulate IIS configuration keys and data in the memory-resident metabase. Using the IIS Admin Base Object, your C++ application can administer the configuration of IIS and can also use the metabase to store custom application data.

The IIS Admin Objects provide most of the same functionality as the IIS Admin Base Object for Java, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, or Active Server Pages (ASP)-based applications. In addition, the IIS Admin Objects are a provider for Active Directory Services, with supplemental IIS-specific functionality.

For more information about the metabase and the identifiers used by IIS, see IIS Metabase and Metabase Identifier Reference in the Programmer's Reference, and the Registry and Metabase topics in the Administrator's Reference.

This section contains:

• About the IIS Admin Base Object, which explains how this object manages your IIS configuration by manipulating data in the metabase, and discusses how you use keys, data entries, handles, inheritance, identifiers, and user types in your program.
• Using the IIS Admin Base Object, which explains setting, retrieving, and enumerating metabase data, registering an event sink, and backing up and restoring the metabase.
• IIS Admin Base Object Reference, which provides details of the interface structures, methods, and errors.