I have ASP.NET developers who need to have limited rights to administrate the IIS7 server. So I downloaded the IIS Manager software for this purpose. Unfortunately, the IIS Manager software throws up a UAC dialog the moment it starts (from Vista SP1). I don't understand why we need to be a local administrator of our workstation in order to connect to and remotely manage IIS 7 servers. Our developers do not run as administrators, both for network administration reasons and because we want to encourage them to not write code that requires administrative privileges to execute. It seems like the local user's privileges should have very little to do with connecting to a remote IIS7 server and administrating it.
I understand that administrating the *local* IIS7 should require admin privileges (or maybe it should be configurable), but with all that MS is doing to encourage non-admin practices (which I agree with) it seems strange that I'd have to choose between delegating limited IIS7 administration and keeping my domain users from having local administrative privileges.
Thanks for any help you can provide, and nice work overall on IIS7.