Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Creating a Website

The advantage of using WMI to create websites is that it gives you a consistent product and vastly simplifies the creation process by automating dozens of minute details. For companies that create a lot of websites, scripting makes a lot of sense.

Just the Steps

To use WMI to create a website

1. Define the appropriate variables.

2. Use CreateObject to create an instance of the WbemScripting SWbemLocator object.

3. Use the locator object so that you can use the ConnectServer method to connect to the MicrosoftIISv2 namespace on the target computer.

4. Use the service object to get an instance of "IIsWebService=‘W3SVC’".

5. Use the server binding object ...