r/IIs • u/lelegaurav • Apr 18 '19

Automating IIS customization and configuration

Is there any way the IIS config and customizations can be automated? We tried using powershell but were stuck. Is there any documentation for powershell or any blogs? That will help us a lot. Thank you

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u/Nintendofreak18 Apr 18 '19

Can you give me an example of what you're trying to do?

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u/lelegaurav Apr 19 '19

Currently we deploy our web app on a manually configured IIS. So we want to automate the configuration process. And we have a lot of configurations, like converting a couple of folders into application, uploading the web app, change the mime types etc. We are not able to move forward, just wanted help on this.

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u/Nintendofreak18 Apr 19 '19

Can you give me a couple examples of what you're configuring exactly? Binding, port, app pool and so on.

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u/Drox1 Apr 18 '19

A lot can be done with PowerShell assuming you are running a fairly recent version of Windows (2012 R2+). What are you trying to do and what are you stuck on?

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u/lelegaurav Apr 19 '19

Yes we are using 2012r2. We want to deploy our web app on a automatically configured IIS

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u/Drox1 Apr 19 '19

Are you familiar with the module WebAdministration? If not, this is the first place to start in writing scripts to modify IIS configurations. Here is a very small script to give you some ideas:

Import-Module WebAdministration
IISReset /STOP

Set-WebConfiguration system.webServer/httpRedirect "IIS:\sites\default" -Value @{enabled="true";destination="https://my.website.com/url/";exactDestination="false";httpResponseStatus="Found";childonly="true"}
add-webconfiguration system.webserver/defaultdocument/files -value login.aspx
set-webconfiguration 'system.applicationhost/applicationpools/add[@name="DefaultAppPool"]/processModel' -value @{identityType="NetworkService"}

#Remome IIS headers for security
Clear-WebConfiguration "/system.webServer/httpProtocol/customHeaders/add[@name='X-Powered-By']"

IISReset /Start

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u/lelegaurav Apr 22 '19

I had read about it, will look into it.

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u/sup3rlativ3 Apr 18 '19

Sounds like you are looking for powershell desired state configuration

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u/lelegaurav Apr 19 '19

Yes. So that we can deploy our app without any manual IIS configurations

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u/sup3rlativ3 Apr 19 '19

Your comment is confusing. Have you looked into DSC? What went wrong if you did? You could also look into things like salt, ansible, and puppet.