Automating IIS Administration
Many scripts are
available for administering IIS from the command-line, and
they’re detailed in this section. Most of these are
located in the \inetpub\adminscripts directory;
exceptions are noted within the individual command’s
discussion.
iisreset
You can
control IIS using a command-line function called
iisreset. Depending on the argument switches you
use with the command, you can perform any number of tasks.
iisreset /restart
Restarts all IIS-related services.
iisreset /start
Starts IIS.
iisreset /stop
Stops IIS.
iisreset /reboot
Restarts the actual server machine, not just IIS.
iisreset /rebootonerror
Use this to simply restart IIS—but, if errors are encountered during the process, reboot the server.
iisreset /noforce
Doesn’t forcefully terminate services that don’t respond to requests.
iisreset /timeout:value
IIS will wait for a service to respond for the number of seconds in
the preceding value field. If the service still
doesn’t respond, and
/rebootonerror is used in the command as well, the
machine will restart.
iisreset /status
Lists the status of all IIS services.
iisreset /enable && iisreset /disable
Toggles the ability to start or stop IIS services on the machine.
iisweb
iisweb
can create new web
sites from the command-line. For
instance:
iisweb /create e:\webcontent "Main Website" /d www.win.com
creates a web site named Main Website that can be addressed at
www.win.com from content stored
in the directory e:\webcontent.
By default, iisweb
will start ...
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