programmatic IIS administration

Suppose there are a number of IIS5 servers that all have the same
application running with the same duplicated database. I want to develop an
administration program that will be installed on all servers. Every once in
a while when the database needs to be uploaded to the servers (or downloaded
from a central ftp server) you go to the IIS admin on all servers and you
select "update application". It will then start updating the database,
change some XML file properties in a virtual directory and restart IIS.
Now, my question is if this is possible to create and how? Or what is the
usual way to create a user friendly IIS administration program like this?

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jcochran
Thu Mar 04 08:12:33 CST 2004

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:12:15 +0100, "Servé Lau" <ik@benerwegvan.com>
wrote:

>Suppose there are a number of IIS5 servers that all have the same
>application running with the same duplicated database. I want to develop an
>administration program that will be installed on all servers. Every once in
>a while when the database needs to be uploaded to the servers (or downloaded
>from a central ftp server) you go to the IIS admin on all servers and you
>select "update application". It will then start updating the database,
>change some XML file properties in a virtual directory and restart IIS.
>Now, my question is if this is possible to create and how?

Sure it's possible. VBScript, WMI and ASP should work.

>Or what is the
>usual way to create a user friendly IIS administration program like this?

Buy it. :)

Jeff