How to update existing IIS 6 Web Site using PowerShell

Question

I am trying to create a PowerShell script that creates a new IIS 6 web site and sets things like App Pool, Wildcard application maps, ASP.NET version, etc.

After extensi

Answer 1

The $result object contains the path to the newly created IIsWebServer object. You can get access to the virtual directory, where you can configure more properties, by doing the following:

$w3svcID = $result.ReturnValue -replace "IIsWebServer=", ""
$w3svcID = $w3svcID -replace "'", ""
$vdirName = $w3svcID + "/ROOT";

$vdir = gwmi -namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" 
             -class "IISWebVirtualDir" 
             -filter "Name = '$vdirName'";
# do stuff with $vdir
$vdir.Put();