Do complex IIS management tasks easily with AppCmd command piping

As much as I hate to re-post someone else’s content, I’ve been real busy in the past few weeks and havent had a chance to post new stuff – and today I saw Kanwal’s post on a very near and dear subject of mine: AppCmd command pipelining. Things you can do by piping appcmd commands … [Read more…]

Most Important AppCmd Commands: Backing up and restoring IIS7 configuration

Welcome to the first post of the “Most Important AppCmd Commands” series.  Have you ever made some changes to a system’s state, and then after everything suddenly stopped working, wondered how the hell you are going to get back to a working state?  Well, this post is all about doing just that when you are … [Read more…]

Most Important AppCmd Commands

Usually, a day doesnt go by that I dont get a collegue or a partner team in Microsoft asking how to do something or other about AppCmd.exe, the unified command line management tool for the IIS7 server.  Since its inception in the fall of 2005, the tool has been becoming increasingly popular internally – IIS7 … [Read more…]