Want to hear more about the new IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider, a new PodCast has been released. The PodCast includes an interview with Thomas Deml a senior Program Manager in the IIS Team.
Topics of the PodCast:
Talk about the IIS7 management cmdlets
- Get/Set-WebConfiguration
- Start-WebItem
- Remove-WebConfigurationProperty
- Ability to use XPath filters
Talk about the IIS7 PSprovider
- Provider timeline – 2nd beta in June, final in October
- Features
- ability to configure IIS and ASP.net, sites, vdirs, apps, all that
- ability to delegate
- root of namespace: sites, app pools
What does the future hold (that you can discuss)
- We talk about Server Core
Find the PodCast here.
Jeong Hwan from the IIS Team has posted a nice little article about the new PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The article is for users who have never experienced Windows PowerShell and want to use the IIS PowerShell Provider and provides various examples.
Read his article here: Learning IIS PowerShell Provider (Step by Step).
Microsoft has released a Technical Preview 1 of the PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0. The new provider is a snap-in that allows you to manage IIS 7.0 configuration.
The IIS7 PowerShell Provider allows you to
- Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools
- Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications and Virtual Directories
- Add and Change Complex Configuration Settings
- Query Run-time Data (Web-Site State, Application Pool State, Currently Executing Requests)
- Execute Advanced Configuration Tasks, Scripting, Integration with other PowerShell Snap-Ins and features
- Search and Discover Configuration Settings
Download the Technical Preview 1 here:
