Administering an ISP Installation
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Administering Web sites can be time consuming and costly, especially for people who manage large ISP installations. Consequently, many ISPs support only large, company Web sites, at the expense of personal Web sites. Nevertheless, a cost-effective way to support both would be to automate administrative tasks and let users administer their own sites from remote computers. This solution reduces the amount of time and money it takes to manually administer a large installation, without reducing the number of Web sites supported. IIS 5.0 offers three technologies that help you automate administration:
With these three technologies, you can administer sites from the command line of a central computer, as well as group frequently used commands in batch files. All you need to do is run the batch files to add new accounts, change permissions, add a virtual server to a site, and so forth.
In this section, you’ll learn how to carry out basic administrative tasks, by running the sample ADSI scripts installed with IIS 5.0. These scripts can give you faster, more costeffective administration. For example, you’ll see how to create a new virtual directory on a remote server and then change that directory’s write access. You’ll also see sample custom scripts that can change Windows permissions on a server.
ADSI sample scripts and the WSH environment are installed by default, when you install Windows 2000 Server and IIS 5.0. Although the sample scripts are fully functional, they also serve as templates from which you can create your own scripts.
For detailed information about WSH and ADSI scripts, see the “Administration Scripts” topic in the IIS 5.0 online product documentation.
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