11.2. Implementing IIS Remote Management Service on Server Core

Configuring the Remote Management Service on Server Core is slightly complicated. Server Core doesn’t have a graphical interface, and therefore no IIS manager, to perform the configuration. Physically standing at the server or using Remote Desktop doesn’t help.

But that’s not the only issue. To be honest, I can’t physically always be at the server when I want to configure it. In fact I don’t want to have to be in some cold data center to configure remote management. The other issue I have is that I need to configure many IIS servers. It doesn’t make sense to run around configuring each server one at a time.

The solution is to use PowerShell and PowerShell Remoting to configure the ...

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