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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:57:18+00:00

I have been looking into the Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and the ServerManager class, trying to control

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I have been looking into the Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and the ServerManager class, trying to control our Windows Server 2008 IIS 7 instance.

I have enabled remote administration and can connect via the IIS remote administration tool. However, when I try and use the following, I cannot connect:

ServerManager.OpenRemote(serverName);

This class does not allow me to specify a username and password on the remote IIS 7 server, as the IIS remote administrator tool does.

This is all being called via our build process using NAnt.

How do others control their remote IIS 7 server as part of their CI setup?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I wrote a WCF service in the end, which runs on the remote machine as a service. The service runs under a local account with administrator rights so that the local IIS instance on that machine can be changed.

    From my NAnt script I have a series of custom tasks that communicate to the WCF service and change IIS settings as required.

    As this is an internal dev environment I am not too concerned about security and the actual changes to IIS I am allowed are very basic.

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