The IIS Admin Objects are organized in a hierarchical structure that mirrors the IIS structures defined in the IIS metabase. Objects contain other objects to create the object structure illustrated in the following diagram. Details of the IIS structure and the metabase are found in the Metabase Structure topic of the Introduction to the IIS Metabase section. Most objects will inherit characteristics of the parent object, but child objects can contain unique characteristics implemented by extending the schema. You can use this object hierarchy to access configuration settings for specific IIS elements. The structure shown in the diagram can vary slightly depending on how IIS is installed.