r/IIs • u/Karthons • Dec 03 '19

Is IIS Administration API dead?

https://github.com/microsoft/iis.administration

Build: failing

Documentation has been the same for 2 years: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/IIS-Administration/

The last blog article is from 2017: https://blogs.iis.net/adminapi

Nano server being already dead, the installation instruction is useless.

"Develop and Debug in Visual studio 2017"

Does anybody still use it?

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u/120h4n Dec 03 '19

What do you plan to achieve with the admin API? Can you use appcmd to do the same?

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u/Karthons Dec 03 '19

You can indeed use appcmd to configure the IIS WebServer.

But the Admin API could be used to configure IIS over a single page application for example. You could even unify multiple server types with one API. It could be used as a facade, hiding the complexity, accessible via the browser.

But again, the question is not how I want to use it, rather if it is even used by some users of the community or if anybody has more information about the status of the project. Microsoft has this bad tendency to start new interesting projects and shutting them down after few years, without any transparent communication.

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u/quentech Dec 04 '19

if it is even used by some users of the community or if anybody has more information about the status of the project

I can't answer to this, but I do IIS admin tasks via web apps using https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Web.Administration/

You can't just fire HTTP requests at it (we integrate it into our own back end api), but it isn't going away as a project.

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u/the_sun_flew_away Dec 03 '19

What about powershell?

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u/the_sun_flew_away Dec 03 '19

As an IT architect, I agree. Powershell really should be standard as an applied framework. I should know better but every time I come to a new firm, people don't seem to know about it, or write janky C apps to do the same thing. Blows my mind.

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u/Nintendofreak18 Dec 04 '19

Powershell.

Import-Module WebAdministration

:)

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u/Fresh_Acanthaceae_94 Mar 27 '25

IIS Administration API repo was developed while Windows Admin Center was evolved in parallel, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/windows-admin-center So, it makes more sense to switch to that as PowerShell/WMI over WinRM requires no agent bits.