Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
by Olga M. Londer Mike Volordarsky Brett Hill, Bernard Cheah, Steve Schofield, Carlos Aguiar Mares, Kurt Meyer, and Microsoft IIS Team
WMI Provider
IIS 7.0 continues to support the legacy WMI provider used in IIS 6.0 to manage the Web server. This WMI provider works via the IIS 6.0 Metabase Compatibility role service that translates the IIS 6.0 configuration settings and actions into the IIS 7.0 configuration structure. To use existing scripts that use the IIS 6.0 WMI object model, you need to install the IIS 6.0 WMI Compatibility role service (from the Management Tools\IIS 6 Management Compatibility category) when managing the Web Server (IIS) role in Server Manager on Windows Server 2008. Alternatively, use the Turn Windows Components On And Off page in Windows Vista. To learn more about the IIS 6.0 Metabase Compatibility layer, see Chapter 4.
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