Administering an ISP Installation

IIS Admin Objects and ADSI

The IIS Admin Objects installed with IIS 5.0 make programmatic administration straightforward. Based on ADSI, these objects are compatible with automation and, as a result, can easily be accessed and manipulated by any language that supports automation, such as VBScript or JScript, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Java, or C++.

When you install IIS 5.0, the sample IIS Admin Objects scripts are copied into the Inetpub\AdminScripts directory by default.

You can use these sample scripts to configure your IIS 5.0 installation, to create virtual directories, to display information about a Web site (see the example in the following section), or to manage the status of Web sites by stopping, pausing, and starting IIS.

In addition to using the sample scripts as they are, you can customize them by extrapolating from the annotated examples. With custom scripts, you can administer your IIS 5.0 configuration by changing the settings stored in the metabase. The structure of the metabase parallels the structure of your IIS 5.0 installation, and the property inheritance feature of the metabase allows you to set up IIS 5.0 configuration settings in an efficient manner.

For details about ADSI objects, see the “ADSI Object Methods” topic in the IIS 5.0 online product documentation.