Sunday, August 14, 2005

IIS Admin Objects/IIS ADSI/IIS WMI Providers (IIsWebFile)

David Wang : HOWTO: Use IIsWebFile to fine grain control IIS behavior

"A relatively unknown and unadvertised behavior of IIS is that its features are often more granular than exposed via the IIS Manager UI. In other words, the UI constrains you to a pre-determined set of supported and often-used scenarios, both for your safety (remember, we actually want to allow non-admins to use IIS) and ours.

However, if you really understand IIS behavior and configuration, you can take on some 'extra' responsibility and do some nifty and non-obvious things...

Question:
Is it possible to implement in SSL in specific web page. Can you give a details or example.. Is really require separate virtual directory for secured and unsecured pages.

Answer:
Yes, it is absolutely possible to mix secured and unsecured pages within the same virtual directory.
The IIS configuration concept which supports this is called IIsWebFile. ..."


I've seen this before, but it never really clicked. Wow, the IIS Admin Objects/IIS ADSI/IIS WMI Providers are pretty cool. We don't need no stinking MMC console... ;)

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