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You're reading from Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook Task-oriented recipes to manage your web server with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

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ISBN-13 9781787126671

Length 410 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

IIS

Concepts

System Administration

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Khan

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Preface

1. Integrating IIS 10.0 with Windows Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating an Application Pool in IIS 10.0

3. Hosting Multiple Websites on IIS 10.0

4. Constructing Virtual Directories in IIS 10.0

5. Installing HTTP/2 on IIS 10.0

6. Getting Your Wildcard Host Up and Running

7. Deploying IIS 10.0 on Nano Server

8. Configuring IIS Administration with PowerShell Cmdlets

9. Enabling ASP.NET Core with IIS on Nano Server

10. Installing and Configuring SSL Websites

11. Extending IIS 10.0 to FTP

12. Securing Your Websites on IIS 10.0

13. Managing and Troubleshooting IIS 10.0

In this recipe, we will configure IIS Manager permissions and IIS Manager users. We will also configure the machine key.

We require an up-and-running IIS 10.0 instance. Security components should be installed. You should have administrative privileges.

Log in to Windows Server 2016 with an account with administrative privileges.
Open Server Manager from the Start menu or use the search window to find it.
Go to Tools | IIS Manager. Click on IIS server WIN2016IIS, go to Features View, and open IIS Manager Users, as shown here:

You can add the new IIS user from IIS Manager Users (these are different from Windows users). Let's move to IIS Manager Permissions. Expand the IIS server WIN2016IIS, expand the Sites folder, click on mysite.com, go to Features View, and open IIS Manager Permissions:

Go to the Actions pane, and click on Allow User.... IIS Manager permissions are used to allow users or user groups on the local computer to manage a...