Adding Classes and Properties to IIS Admin Objects

You can add your own classes and properties to IIS by extending the IIS ADSI Schema. There are extensible directory services that allow the base schema to be modified, and allow objects to be extended. By creating a new object with the Schema Management Objects, you can extend the schema with a new class or property.

This section contains:

• The IIS ADSI Schema: Describes the IIS ADSI Schema, and how it can be accessed.
• About IIS Classes: Conceptual information discussing class architecture, inheritance, and derivation.
• When to Extend the IIS ADSI Schema: Presents how to decide if the schema needs to be extended to meet given needs.
• How to Extend the IIS ADSI Schema: Discusses entry points for implementing schema extensions and provides code samples in Visual Basic Scripting Edition.

When a new class or property is added to the IIS ADSI Schema, the IIS ADSI provider will store the instance of that object and the values of its properties in the metabase.