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• 11-17-2008, 6:55 PM

  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 4:10 PM Posts 13

  Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact I'm faced with migrating a massive file server from iis6 to iis7 (on folder for each of our users to store documents). I've figured out how to programatically migrate data, create virtual directories for each user however, I'm having trouble figuring a good way to add WebDav authoring rules. I'd like to add one authoring rule per virtual directory (more secure than how were currently configured) allowing the folder owner to read, write etc. However, so far the only way i see to programatically add authoring rules is to edit the applicationHost.xml and throw in an XML statement for each directory. Is there a good way to go about creating authoring rules (.net class library perhaps?) or am i stuck appending authoring rules to the applicationhost.xml configuration?  If the only good way to go about this is to append to the applicaitonhost.xml is there a best pratice method for appending to the xml file?

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• 11-18-2008, 6:38 PM

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  anilr Joined on 05-23-2006, 6:13 PM Redmond, WA Posts 2,343	Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact There are many ways to edit IIS configuration - AHAdmin, Microsoft.Web.Administration, appcmd, WMI, powershell - pick whatever works for you. Anil Ruia Senior Software Design Engineer IIS Core Server

• 11-18-2008, 7:22 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 4:10 PM Posts 13

  Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact I've been playing around with all of the options you've mentioned. I seem to run into issues with actually setting or create the objects needs to set an authoring rule equal to. I followed the directions here to use appcmd.exe to try and set the authoring rules up http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/352/how-to-configure-webdav-settings-using-appcmd/ I exectued the following command: PS IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site> appcmd.exe set config "default web site/site123" /section:system.web.webServer/webdav/authoringRules /+[users='domain.net\user123',path='*',access='Read,Write,Source'] /commit:apphost It seems that no matter what I do I always get: Failed to process input: The parameter 'path=/' must begin with a / or - (HRESULT=80070057). Is there any documentation on how to create an authoring rule? and apply it

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• 11-19-2008, 1:07 AM

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  CarlosAg Joined on 02-18-2003, 9:23 PM Posts 329	Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact Could you try: appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site/SilverlightApp" -section:system.webServer/webdav/authoringRules /+"[users='domain.net\user123',path='*',access='Read, Write, Source']" /commit:apphost I used Configuration Editor from AdminPack to generate it: http://www.iis.net/extensions/AdministrationPack

• 11-19-2008, 1:45 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 4:10 PM Posts 13

  Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact thanks for the admin pack reccomendation I used the admin tool to generate an appcmd script, when i run the script..... appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site/site123" -section:system.webServer/webdav/authoringRules /+"[users='domain.net\user123',path='*',access='Read, Write, Source']" /commit:apphost Running that command i get back: Failed to process input: The parameter 'system.webServer/webdav/authoringRules' must begin with a / or - (HRESULT=80070057). I'm gonna take a stab here and guess that appcmd just doesn't work for this.

• 11-19-2008, 4:46 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 4:10 PM Posts 13

  Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact Well, this might not be the most elegant solution but I fixed it. I wanted something in powershell so I could go ahead and add this to my migration script. basically I converted the c# script generated by the admin tool. thanks everyone for your help  here it is (if anyone ever uses this, replace site123 with you site and domain.net\user123 with the user your adding): [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Web.Administration") $serverManager = new-object microsoft.web.administration.servermanager $config = $serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration() $authoringRulesSection = $config.GetSection("system.webServer/webdav/authoringRules", "Default Web Site/site123") $authoringRulesCollection = [microsoft.web.administration.ConfigurationElementCollection] $authoringRulesCollection = $authoringRulesSection.GetCollection() $addElement = [microsoft.web.administration.configurationelement] $addElement = $authoringRulesCollection.CreateElement("add") $addElement.setAttributeValue("users", "domain.net\user123") $addElement.setAttributeValue("path", "*") $addElement.setAttributeValue("access", "read,write,source") $authoringRulesCollection.Add($addElement) $serverManager.commitChanges()

• 11-19-2008, 7:45 PM

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  CarlosAg Joined on 02-18-2003, 9:23 PM Posts 329

  Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact   That is interesting, are your running Windows Vista RTM? I tried this in Vista SP1 and it worked fine. (using a command prompt) I did tried it using PowerShell and it doesnt work, it turns out you need to use quotes aroung the section: .\appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site/site123" "-section:system.webServer/webdav/aut horingRules" /+"[users='domain.net\user1234',path='*',access='Read, Write, Source']" /commit:apphost

• 11-19-2008, 7:58 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 4:10 PM Posts 13	Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact I'm on server 2008 with the most recent updates.  I just gave your command another try and it worked!!, this will certainly look (and probably work much better) than the my .net/powershell solution. can't believe I didn't think to use quotes around the whole -section option.  Thanks for your help

• 11-19-2008, 10:27 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 4:10 PM Posts 13

  Re: Automating WebDav Authoring Rules Reply Contact With the powershell script (if you can call it that i guess so if you throw it in a file). I found the error. The access section has to have capital Read,Write,Source in it. If a rule is already there for a user it will also fail.  Shouldn't make a difference, but I've been running it from the IIS powershell provider (extra install).  Here's a copy of the proper code. I just ran this one (after removing the permission it added earlier, with no issue) anyone should be able to copy and paste this into a powershell command line:  [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Web.Administration") $serverManager = new-object microsoft.web.administration.servermanager $config = $serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration() $authoringRulesSection = $config.GetSection("system.webServer/webdav/authoringRules", "Default Web Site/site123") $authoringRulesCollection = [microsoft.web.administration.ConfigurationElementCollection] $authoringRulesCollection = $authoringRulesSection.GetCollection() $addElement = [microsoft.web.administration.configurationelement] $addElement = $authoringRulesCollection.CreateElement("add") $addElement.setAttributeValue("users", "domain.net\user123") $addElement.setAttributeValue("path", "*") #the line below is the line that had to be changed $addElement.setAttributeValue("access", "Read,Write,Source") $authoringRulesCollection.Add($addElement) $serverManager.commitChanges()

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