Installing IIS

Before you can use IIS, you must install it onto your host. Like other roles/features of Windows Server 2016 covered in this book, you install IIS by using the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet. Once you have installed the web server, you take a look at the host after the installation is complete.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV1, a member server running Windows Server 2016. This server is a server in the Reskit.Org domain.

How to do it...

1. Open a PowerShell console and install the Web-Server and all sub-features:

Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server `                         -IncludeAllSubFeature `                         -IncludeManagementTools

2. See what web related features are installed on SRV1:

Get-WindowsFeature -Name Web* | Where-Object Installed

3. Check the WebAdministration module and discover how many commands are in the module:

Get-Module -Name WebAdministration -ListAvailable
      Get-Command -Module webadministration |      Measure-Object |      Select-Object count...