11.3. Delegating access to other administrators and developers

By default IIS is completely locked down, preventing other users from managing the web server. Only members of the local Administrators group and the Active Directory Domain Admins group have access.

As I point out at the beginning of this chapter, there will be many times when you want to delegate some web management responsibilities. After making the server remotely accessible, as described in the previous sections, the process is as simple as assigning administrators and developers to the websites and applications you want them to manage. They’ll be able to open the IIS manager, connect to the remote website, and perform their tasks without having more permissions than they need ...

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