IIS 7.0 - PowerShell

Remove-WebHandler - suppress VERBOSE message

davidtreves — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:14:32 GMT

Hi all,

I'm using Remove-WebHandler cmdlet, which when executes writes a yellow message that starts like that:

"VERBOSE: Performing operation "Remove-WebConfigurationProperty" on Target...".

Any idea how I can suppress that message? I don't want it to appear when I run my scripts.

As far as I understand "-Verbose" parameter is used for enabling verbose messages and I'm not using it. I also found that there's a parameter called "$VerbosePreference", which controls whether I see verbose messages. I didn't play with that parameter and I made sure it's set to "SilentlyContinue", so this isn't the case either.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Adding redirect settings to a website using PS

davidtreves — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:19:02 GMT

Hi all,

I want to set in a website a permanent redirection to a specific URL. I tried the following:

New-ItemProperty -Filter "/system.webServer/httpRedirect" -PSPath "IIS:\Sites\$name" -value @{enabled="true";destination=$target;exactDestination="true";httpResponseStatus="Permanent"};

And I get the following error:

New-ItemProperty : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:1 char:17
+ New-ItemProperty <<<< "/system.webServer/httpRedirect" -PSPath "IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site" -value @{en
abled="true";destination=domain.com;exactDestination="true";httpResponseStatus="Permanent"};

I tried also with Add-WebConfiguration and got pretty much the same result. Here is one of the ways I tried to execute it:

Add-WebConfiguration -Filter "/system.webServer/httpRedirect" -PSPath "IIS:\Sites\nowhiring.com.au - Public" -value @{enabled="true";destination=$target;exactDestination="true";httpResponseStatus="Permanent"};

I already managed to set other settings using these commands, such as adding HTTP handlers and enabling/disabling logging. Redirecting simply doesn't want to work..

I think it should be fairly straight forward and I don't know why I keep getting it wrong.

Btw, if anyone knows of any good resource (book, site) which deals with IIS Snap-in it would be great if you could link me with it. The samples and tutorials in iis.net don't cover everything..

Thanks!

App Pools and PowerShell

dhanson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:50:51 GMT

I need to know how to list all properties of a AppPool. I have tried several different things but I need to be able to find a property name so I know how to set it.

For Example one of the methods I have tried

Select-Object IIS:\AppPools\MyAppPool | Get-Member -memberType property

I believe I won't have an issue setting the value once I know what the name of the value is I need to set.

If someone can teach me to fish I would appreciate that...

FTP virtual directory, help!!!!!!!!!!!

Vloors — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:13:25 GMT

I am trying to create an FTP virtual directory, but some having some issues. so far I have:

New-Item IIS:\Sites\SFTP\$folder -type VirtualDirectory -physicalPath d:\temp\$folder

However, how do I set the other properties, like’ FTP Authorization Rules’?

The $folder variable is defined earlier in the script.

I am using Windows 2008 R2 with FTP 7.5

Any help would be appreciated.

Windows Server 2008 r2 and Powershell snapin

steve schofield — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:12:53 GMT

I'm running a 64 bit version of windows server 2008 r2. I don't see the powershell provider as a feature to install. Am I missing something obvious?

power shell : System.ServiceModel.OperationContextScope : cannot creat constructor

kirank11 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:18:19 GMT

I am following the process of creating proxy from the following link

http://cglessner.blogspot.com/2008/...hell.html/

Power shell Code for Creating the $proxy:

$wsdl = Get-WsdlImporter -wsdlUrl "http://myservice/mex"

$proxyTypes = Get-WcfProxy -wsdlImporter $wsdl

$address = New-Object System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress("http://myservice")

$binding = new-object System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding
#system.

$proxy = New-Object $proxyTypes -ArgumentList $binding, $address

$d = New-Object System.ServiceModel.OperationContextScope($proxy.InnerChannel)

Error:

Cannot convert argument "0", with value: "ISetService", for ".ctor" to type "System.ServiceModel.IContextChannel": "Cannot convert "ISetService" to "System.ServiceModel.IContextChannel"."
At :line:45 char:17
+ $pdc = new-object <<<< System.ServiceModel.OperationContextScope($proxyLRC.InnerChannel)

The C# code works fine but when I try to implement it using the power Shell then it fails.

this may help u.

Kiran K

Setting binding information with a dynamic IP address

cmdcom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:37:14 GMT

Hey now,

I'm new to this PowerShell/WebAdministration thing. My script allows a user to enter an IP address for a new website. This IP is used as part of the -bindings argument when the New-Item cmdlet is called. -bindings expects a hash table as the argument type. Thing is, I cannot figure out how to use a variable in the constructor of the hash table. After Googling this issue extensively, I attempted a number of syntactical variations, none of which worked (for clarity, I've omitted the other parameters used by the cmdlet):

-bindings @{label="protocol";Expression="http";label="bindingInformation";Expression={($ip) + ":80"}}

and

-bindings @{"protocol" = "http";"bindingInformation" = {($ip) + ":80"}}

and

-bindings @{"protocol" = "http";"bindingInformation" = ($ip) + ":80"}

All result in a runtime error of some sort. In desperation, I ended up with:

$bindings = @{"protocol" = "http"}
$bindings.Add("bindingInformation", "")
$bindings["bindingInformation"] = $ip + ":80"

then

-bindings $bindings

This ran sucessfully, but the binding information for the new site was empty. What am I doing wrong here?

TIA

Removing WebConfiguration node?

relliky2d — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:57:37 GMT

Creating and Editing WebConfiguration sections is easy. But how would I go about removing a particular node of a Config Section? Clear-WebConfiguration seems to just clear a whole section. Thanks

Cannot remotely connect

msufreeman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:17:23 GMT

Hello all, new PowerShell user here. I know this site is mainly about IIS, but the description for this particular section says, "Use this forum to ask PowerShell questions, discuss issues, request features and yell at IIS team members." So, here I go :)

I'm trying to remotely run WMI commands on other computers via PowerShell. It's not the commands I'm having problems with, it's the actual connecting that I'm confused about.

I'm testing with my desktop and my laptop, both of which I'm a local admin on, so I figure that I should be able to remotely run WMI commands between them via PowerShell.

First test, I run gwmi -namespace "root\cimv2" -list -computer computerName and get:

Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception fro
At line:1 char:5
+ gwmi <<<< -namespace "root\cimv2" -list -computer computerName

I found an article that point out a few reasons that PowerShell would throws this error and the only one that applied was the Firewall. So, I turned off Firewall and the command worked.

Then I tried to run the above code, but modified to use another account that should have permission by adding "-credential domain\accountName" to the command and I get this error:

Get-WmiObject : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
At line:1 char:5
+ gwmi <<<< -namespace "root\cimv2" -list -computer computerNAme -credential domain\accountName

Now, I understand that this is simply telling me that the account doesn't have permission, however it really should.

We have tons of other scripts that use the particular account I'm testing with. The account is in fact set up for just that purpose. Many of these scripts remotely access other machines in our domain and again use these credentials.

So, after all of the rambling above, my question boils down to this. Why would PowerShell tell me that this account doesn't have permission? Are there some other kinds of permission issues that I'm not aware of for PowerShell? Also, the other scripts work on remote systems with the Firewall on, so why is PowerShell not working even for me as a local admin unless the Firewall is off?

I realize that this could also be a WMI issue, but the script I'm working on is a rewrite from a vbScript that makes WMI calls and they work on there.

Sorry about all of the text, but I like to explain my problem as much as I can. Thanks for any help.

Set Website App Pool

t-angrui — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:25:26 GMT

Hello,

I want to be able to set my websites app pool through powwershell. Right now they're all set to DefaultAppPool. As the picture below shows I want to able to assign the FileCopyService app pool to the FileCopyService website.

Any ideas on how to script this in Powershell Modules ? I don't know if this will be much help but I create the App pool and set the physical path with the following :

New-Item -force $FileCopyService_WebAppPath -physicalPath($webServerSetting.WorkingFolderPath + "\FileCopyService") -type Application

restart remote websites

amackan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:12:07 GMT

Hi, running iis7 on our network. i need to write a script that will stop a particular website on our internal web server and the associated apppool. we currently use iisweb to do this on our iis6 server.

can some one point me in the right direction. my desktop pc is vista 32 bit running powershell 1 with the IIS7 powershell tools installed.

thanks

restart site across webfarm using powershell

rkr31 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:07:53 GMT

Hi all.

I need to add functionality to our control panel to restart sites/application pools across a windows 2008 R2 webfarm (using dfsr and shared config).

Basically if the user clicks the restart site button i need it to restart the site across all servers in the farm. I can do this to a single server but am unsure how i go about doing it to a remote server.

Is there any documentation about doing remote tasks with powershell? Or does anyone have any examples i could use.

Thanks in advance (again...)

Richard

list all bindings for a site (customised return parameters)

rkr31 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:39:07 GMT

now i know that i can use Get-ItemProperty IIS:\Sites\win1005 -Name bindings to list the bindings for a particular site, but i need to pass the parameters back to another script so need to output parameters to be different. The above command returns:

Collection
----------
{http *:80:win1005site.com, http *:80:www.rrrr.com}

I need to return

win1005site.com, www.rrrr.com

Any ideas how i can achieve this?

Thanks

Richard

Can't use IIS snapin when using powershell from c#

tjeerd.mulder — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:50:41 GMT

Trying to execute a powershell script that sets up a website. I have it working in the powershell ISE but can't get it to work when using it from c#.

Error I get is:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {688EEEE5-6A7E-422F-B2E1-6AF00DC944A6} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).

That CLSID points to: Microsoft.AppHostQueryProcessor

My code is:

Collection<PSObject> results = new Collection<PSObject>();

Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();

try {

runspace.Open();

Pipeline pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline();

pipeline.Commands.AddScript(script);

pipeline.Commands.Add("Out-String");

results = pipeline.Invoke();

etc etc

The script itself is:

string script = new StringBuilder("Invoke-Command ")

.Append(" -scriptblock {")

.AppendLine()

.AppendLine("Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned")

.AppendLine("Add-PSSnapin WebAdministration") .AppendLine("import-module WebAdministration")

//.AppendLine(@"& '$env:programfiles\IIS\PowerShellSnapin\iisConsole.psc1'")

.AppendLine("IIS:")

.AppendLine("get-Command Out-File | Format-List | out-string")

.AppendLine("Get-Website") .AppendLine("}")

.ToString();

The script is not the actual script to create the website, but just a couple of test statements to figure out why it is failing on a simple Get-Website command. Seems any IIS Snapin command just fails. Currently this code runs from a unit test (MSTest).

I need to use the invoke-command because eventually it needs to create a website remotly.

PowerShell Provider for IIS7

thomad — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:57:29 GMT

The IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider is ready for you:

It allows you to

Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools
Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications and Virtual Directories
Add and Change Complex Configuration Settings
Query Run-time Data (Web-Site State, Application Pool State, Currently Executing Requests)
Execute Advanced Configuration Tasks, Scripting, Integration with other PowerShell Snap-Ins and features
Search and Discover Configuration Settings

DOWNLOAD:
Tech Preview 1 of the IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider can be found here:
x86: http://www.iis.net/downloads/1664/ItemPermaLink.ashx
x64: http://www.iis.net/downloads/1665/ItemPermaLink.ashx

FORUMS:
Go to our PowerShell forum if you need support or if you are looking for 'Tips and Tricks'
http://forums.iis.net/1151.aspx

WALKTHROUGHS:
We have 9 walkthroughs for you to get familiar with the IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/447/managing-iis-with-the-iis-70-powershell-provider/

Add webbinding only if it does not exist

rkr31 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:44:28 GMT

Apologies for all the questions. Im having issues getting my head around powershell at the moment....

How can i add a webbinding only if it does not already exist? The following adds the binding, but if it already exists it still adds it but stops the site. I would like to throw an exception if the binding already exists.

$binding = (@{protocol="http";bindingInformation="*:80:binding1.site.com"})
new-item "iis:\sites\$sitename" -type site -physicalPath c:\inetpub\$sitename\website -bindings $binding -id "$sitenumber"

Cannot manipulate get-childitem variable

rkr31 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:12:13 GMT

I think that this is probably powershell specific rather than just to do with IIS, but im hoping that you will be able to help anyhow. I have several sites running on iis. Site id's are numeric and in order (the first site id is 0001, second is 0002 etc...). I want to return the last site id, increment it and then add the next site in sequence (so if the last site was 0023 then i will get that value, add 1 and then add the next site with an id of 0024).

The line below gets the last id, but if i try to manipulate the data in $test it gives me all sorts of oddness. Im guessing that it's just because it's not a string variable, but to be honest im not really sure. Any ideas?

$test = Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites|select-object -last 1|format-list id

Remove Host Header - unless it is the last one

rkr31 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:31:32 GMT

Im setting up a shared server using http 1.1 and need to automate the adding/removing of host headers. The below script seems to work, however i need to add some logic to it so that if this is the last host header it will not remove it and will infact throw up an error of some kind that i can pass back to my web service.

Remove-WebBinding -Site "Default Web Site" -Port 80 -IPAddress 127.0.0.1 -HostHeader www.site.com

Any ideas?

Thanks

Richard

powershell script does not complete when launched from IIS

jchertudi — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:40:53 GMT

I believe this is the best forum for this, we have a php-cgi script that launches a power shell command, which in turn submits a job to a queuing system.

We are running php on IIS7 x64. I believe that somewhere this is a permissions issue, but have not been able to crack the code yet. Only when I run our application pool with the account of a system administrator will the job submit to the queue. I have tried to run the application pool with either NetworkService and a domain guest account. Normal php pages execute, but page that launches powershell will time out and a hanging powershell.exe is left running on the web server doing nothing.

if i run a powershell command window on the web server directly as the same domain guest account, then the job will complete. We just can not seem to get php to submit a powershell command that completes.

Any advice or ideas? I have been chasing this as a security issue, I don't want to run this site as a system admin!

TIA

running PS scripts from a webpage / sharepoint site

jezza6 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:47:32 GMT

Hi there,

This is a tricky one..
We need to start and stop several services in certain orders frequently so with powershell thought it would be possible to have a basic HTML page with a few buttons / links to ps1 scripts which start or stop all required services these in the correct order.

However we can't see any way to execute these .ps1 scripts directly from the webpage links..
Also UAC makes this difficult because some of the services we've scripted to start and stop will only execute with elevated privileges.

We have got a crude workaround whereby we can install PoSH v2 and set it's .exe compatibility mode (because it's not a part of version windows 2008 R1) to 'run as administrator', then have each of our web page links open a folder with the ps1 script ready to be executed. After configuring set-executionpolicy unrestricted (one off) we can then double click the ps1 file, and click continue on the UAC prompt that appears.

However is there a more elegant way of doing this?
Also once PoSH v2 is released to market this workaround will no longer work if the compatibility mode: 'run as administrator' option is removed and/or we upgrade to R2..

Windows PowerlShell not Displayed

samir_ad — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:30:25 GMT

Hi,

When i try to install PowerShell in windows server 2008, i don't have option for Windows PowerShell in Add features at Server Management. Instead I have Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment(ISE).

I installed WIndows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment(ISE) on my box and tried to install PowerShell Snap-in. I got the following error while installing powershell snap in.The powershell snap-in is a part of WIndows Operating System. Please install it via 'Program and Features' or 'Server Management'

Please help me to install PowerShell and PowerShell snap-in into my box. I am really facing issue with this.

Thanks,

Samir Adhikari

restart-webapppool access denied

leotohill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:54:05 GMT

I'm getting "access denied" when running restart-webapppool on a local iis app.

Yes, powershell was started as administrator.

Platform is Win7 (rtm release) 64-bit.

Any ideas?

Adding Bindings - Powershell

t-angrui — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:46:07 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to add binding to a site through powershell. I know that I can use the following command in command prompt and get the job done.

appcmd set site /site.name: "Default Web Site" /+binding.[protocol='net.tcp' ,bindingInformation='443:*']

But I want to be able to do this in Powershell.

I get the following error message : The parameter 'bindingInformation=443:*]' must begin with a / or - (HRESULT=80070057).

I've tried adding the "-" before binding but it seems to not do anything , also I've tried doing it on the strings but it was futile. Can someone help me with this ?

Other Alternatives in Powershell I have tried:

New-WebBinding -Site "Default Web Site" -Protocol net.tcp -Port 443 -hostheader "*"

However for Binding information I get : "*:443:*" rather than "443:*"

PowerShell snap-in for IIS 7.0 -> does not work with W2K8 R2

linus78 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:32:09 GMT

Hi all,

I want to use PowerShell to administer my IIS7 on a W2K8 R2 Server. Unfortunately I can't install the IIS7 snap-in: "The PowerShell snap-in is part of Windows Operating System. Please install via Programs and Features or Server Manager"

But unfortunately I cannot find a role or feature for that :-( Can you give me advice where to find it.

At the moment I can't find any "get-command -pssnapin WebAdministration" returns nothing...

Thanks in advance!

linus

Powershell samples using Admin Configuration Editor

steve schofield — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:42:07 GMT

Are there any plans to include powershell sample scripts using Admin Configuration Editor? It includes C#, Script, AppCMD. Powershell is the "way of the future".

Would be helpful for us casual scripters using powershell. The syntax isn't something I remember if I don't do it everyday.