I’ve started to mange server core installations more and more. I recently required to manage on that was utilize IIS. While I’m fairly used to IIS manager, I wasn’t exactly quite sure how remote management worked.
At first I thought it was a part of RSAT, nope, but fret not it is a feature of Windows, just not enabled by default.
As I expected there to be a bunch of configuration BS required figured I’d google how to do it instead of googling errors. 😀 I found this really nice right tot the point YouTube video. Luckily this made my life easy.
So on the Core server:
#Install the required service
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Mgmt-Service
#enable IIS remote management
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WebManagement\Server /v EnableRemoteManagement /t REG_DWORD /d 1
#Enable service at boot
Set-Service WMSVC -StartupType Automatic
#Enable Service
Start-Service WMSVC
On the Client Machine (Windows 7-10)
#Enable IIS management tools
Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features on or off -> IIS -> (check off all items under Web Management Tools, you may not need them all but to be safe doesn’t hurt to add them)
#Open IIS Manager
Either through Server Manager -> manage -> IIS
Or Under the Star menu -> Admin Tools -> IIS Manager
*NOTE* Don’t bother adding the IIS manager Snap-in to an existing MMC session, I found it’s missing the top menu bar.
*NOTE 2* You also need to install IIS Manager for Remote Administration 1.2 (Cause you know this isn’t bundled with RSAT, cause… reasons)
Else you’ll be missing the connect to server option under the file menu.
*UPDATE* Grab it from here (good drive share) as MS for some reason has removed the source link in place of a 404.
*NOTE 3* You have to prepend the admin user name with the domain name, else the connection will failed stating unauthorized.
Thanks SSmith!