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• 04-12-2009, 9:20 PM

  Bob Landau Joined on 04-13-2009, 1:10 AM Posts 2

  How do you unlock configuration data using the IIS Powershell snapin. Reply Contact I want to be able to unlock some sections in particular the module, security among others  This is the XML data I'd like to be able to set using the cmdlets  <section name="modules" allowDefinition="MachineToWebRoot" overrideModeDefault="Allow" /> This works with Set/Get-WebConfigurationProperty (Get-WebConfiguration -filter /system.webServer/directoryBrowse).enabled Get-WebConfigurationProperty -filter /system.webServer/directoryBrowse -name enabled But neither of these do Get-WebConfigurationProperty -filter /system.webServer/modules -name OverrideMode Set-WebConfigurationProperty -filter /system.webServer/modules -name OverrideMode -value $false The error I get back is WARNING: Property OverrideMode is not found on  /system.webServer/modules. This property is there I can see using either of these methods Get-WebConfiguration -Filter /system.webServer/modules | fl * (Get-WebConfiguration -Filter /system.webServer/modules).OverrideMode I'm having similar difficulties modifying the Security and other sections Is this a bug? Please let me know what I'm doing wrong and how I can set these thx bob

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• 05-15-2009, 12:45 AM

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  sergeia Joined on 04-14-2008, 4:47 PM Posts 68

  Re: How do you unlock configuration data using the IIS Powershell snapin. Reply Contact It is quite confusing, indeed. OverrideMode is metadata on sections, we expose it as property in cmdlets, but it is actually read-only. To remove lock from the section you need to target metadata:  set-webconfiguration //asp machine/webroot/apphost -metadata overrideMode -value Allow use path to your place instead of 'machine/webroot/apphost'. Use name of your section instead of 'asp'. Metadata is a switch in get-webconfigurationproperty, that adds s.Metadata member to section object 's', and it takes name of metadata that you want to change in set-webconfiguration. PS IIS:\Sites\testSite\bar #> (get-webconfiguration //asp -metadata).Metadata overrideMode                 : Allow ... rest of metadata ...   Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Sergei