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Thread: IIS7 Remote Administration and Web Farms?

Last post 05-05-2009 2:41 PM by Tharriso. 2 replies.

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  • 05-05-2009, 2:06 PM

    • Tharriso
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    IIS7 Remote Administration and Web Farms?

    I'm beginning to play around with remote administration and have a question I'm hoping somebody can clear up for me.  In my environment we have many production apps that are load balanced across multiple web servers.  I'd like to be able to give the app support teams the ability to remotely administer their sites, but not other sites on the server(s).  Now when using remote administration, it seems that you can only do Connect to Server if you are a local admin on the server.  I want to avoid doing this as I thought this was a major drawback with previous IIS versions.

     The problem I see though is that if you use "Connect  to a site" instead, how do you know which server the remote connection is going to for sites in a load balanced environment?  Is there a way to remotely say "I want to administer Site A on Server A" without giving the user local admin access?

  • 05-05-2009, 2:33 PM In reply to

    • anilr
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    Re: IIS7 Remote Administration and Web Farms?

    Yes, when you say "connect to site" - it asks you for both the server name and the site name or binding on that particular server.

    Anil Ruia
    Senior Software Design Engineer
    IIS Core Server
  • 05-05-2009, 2:41 PM In reply to

    • Tharriso
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    Re: IIS7 Remote Administration and Web Farms?

     Nevermind, I'm blind.  Don't know how I missed that. 

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