{"id":191,"date":"2018-02-11T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-10-02T22:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T03:34:32","slug":"manage-iis-on-server-core-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/02\/11\/manage-iis-on-server-core-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage IIS on Server Core remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As I expected there to be a bunch of configuration BS required figured I’d google how to do it instead of googling errors. \ud83d\ude00 I found this really nice right tot the point YouTube video<\/a>. Luckily this made my life easy.<\/p>\n

So on the Core server:<\/p>\n

#Install the required service
\nInstall-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Mgmt-Service<\/p>\n

#enable IIS remote management
\nreg add HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\WebManagement\\Server \/v EnableRemoteManagement \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1<\/p>\n

#Enable service at boot
\nSet-Service WMSVC -StartupType Automatic<\/p>\n

#Enable Service
\nStart-Service WMSVC<\/p>\n

On the Client Machine (Windows 7-10)<\/p>\n

#Enable IIS management tools
\nPrograms 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)<\/p>\n

#Open IIS Manager
\nEither through Server Manager -> manage -> IIS
\nOr Under the Star menu -> Admin Tools -> IIS Manager<\/p>\n

*NOTE* Don’t bother adding the IIS manager Snap-in to an existing MMC session, I found it’s missing the top menu bar.<\/p>\n

*NOTE 2* You also need to install IIS Manager for Remote Administration 1.2<\/a> (Cause you know this isn’t bundled with RSAT, cause… reasons)
\nElse you’ll be missing the connect to server option under the file menu.<\/p>\n

*UPDATE* Grab it from here (good drive share)<\/a> as MS for some reason has removed the source link in place of a 404.<\/p>\n

*NOTE 3* You have to prepend the admin user name with the domain name, else the connection will failed stating unauthorized.<\/p>\n

Thanks SSmith!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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