v-wdxu
Wed Nov 26 20:05:09 CST 2003
Hi Eoin,
Thank you for posing in the MSDN managed newsgroup!
From my experience on this issue, you can specify one account for the anonymous users in IIS. In IIS mmc, please go to the security tab of the
site's property. In authentication and access control, press the "edit..." button. Authentication methods window will pop up. You can select one
account for the anonymous access.
For script, you can use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Microsoft Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) which will help you a
lot on the management of IIS. Based on my experience, I'd suggest you can use WMI to build the management vbs for the account management.
WMI is a component of the Microsoft Windows operating system and is the Microsoft implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM), which is an industry initiative to develop a standard technology for accessing management information in an enterprise environment. All
the management script of IIS6 located in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\IIS*.vbs from Windows 2003 are built with WMI. You will obtain a lot
regarding the usage of WMI from these files.
Furthermore, I'd suggest you can obtain more information from msdn.microsoft.com. Please go to:
Using WMI to Manage IIS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/htm/prog_wmi_using.asp
Using ADSI to Manage IIS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/htm/TheIISADSIProvider.asp
There are also some samples for you to manage the IIS Programmatically.
Windows Scripting Samples for Programmatic Administration
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/iisref/htm/samp_adminsamples.asp?frame=true
In addition, if you can create one account without password in the server or domain (without any restriction of domain policy for the user name
password), you can specify this account to IIS directly.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.
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Wei-Dong Xu
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