The VBScript Network and Systems Administrator's Cafe » IIS6 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:36:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How to Add the Ability to Administer an IIS 6 Server From a XP Machine. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/how-to-add-the-ability-to-administer-and-iis-6-server-from-a-xp-machine/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/how-to-add-the-ability-to-administer-and-iis-6-server-from-a-xp-machine/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:49:06 +0000 Jerry Lees http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/how-to-add-the-ability-to-administer-and-iis-6-server-from-a-xp-machine/ In re-doing my laptop after a hard drive failure recently I’ve had to setup a bunch of stuff I had previously installed, one thing that several people have asked about (or didn’t know about) is the IIS6 MMC snap in. It allows you to Administer IIS6 from your desktop. It will give you the Internet Information Services (IIS6) Manager icon in Administrative tools and allow you to create custom MMC snap-ins for the web servers. It’s a huge time saver and allows you to do everything in IIS from your local machine (except administer SSL keys, so far as I can recall) that you can do while logged into the server—without logging onto the server!

First you’ll need IIS installed on your machine, via add/remove windows components in the add/remove programs control panel applet. After that run IIS 6 Mgr setup.exe from Microsoft’s Site here.

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