Windows PowerShell management environment on IIS server

Let's introduce the Windows PowerShell management environment of the IIS server. First, let's take a look at IIS. IIS Server is short for Internet Information Server. It is a WEB Server promoted by Microsoft. Currently, the commonly used version is IIS 6 in Windows2003 or IIS 5 earlier.

I believe that none of my friends who focus on scripting or Exchange Server 2007 will be unfamiliar with Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell is a Windows Command Line shell designed specially for system administrators.

The shell contains an interactive prompt and a script environment that can be used independently or jointly. Windows PowerShell for IT pro who love script Management will make them easy. Windows PowerShell also provides comprehensive management functions for IIS servers.

However, although PowerShell can also manage IIS6 running on Windows Server 2003, IIS Server 7 is managed through PowerShell command lines.

It includes the new APPCMD function. APPCMD creates and configures sites through the standard command line interface. Such command line tools are also very common in application scenarios, when a user's environment is used for script management, APPCMD will play a very significant advantage.

IIS Server 7.0 is included on a Windows Vista client. The home version of the operating system also includes IIS Server 7.0 (unlike IIS 5.1, which is available only on XP Professional ). The IIS 7.0 version of the server will be released with Windows Server later this year. A bunch of additional deployment features will be added, including richer host support and secure FTP support, and built-in web farm deployment support.

Web farm support will be especially cool. It will allow you to deploy your web application on a file sharing that contains all the encoding, configuration, content, and keys required to run a server.

Then you can add any number of stateless, non-configured web servers to a web farm. You only need to point them to the file sharing to dynamically load their configuration settings (including binding, virtual directory, application pool settings, etc.) and application content.

This makes it easy to scale up or down an application on multiple machines, avoiding the use of replication methods for configuration and application deployment (as long as you copy files to file sharing, all machines in the web farm will immediately load the changed files ).

The Beta3 version of Windows Server2008 server supports go-live licensing, so you will soon be able to use this function. We are already using the IIS server 7.0 cluster to run Windows Server2008, so you will not be lonely!