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Need to manage an IIS 6 server from XP? Get MS snap-in "IIS 6 Manager for XP"

Posted At : July 28, 2006 8:25 AM | Posted By : Charlie Arehart
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If you need to access an IIS 6 server from XP and try "actoin>connect" to point to one, you'll get an error, "Remote administration of IIS 6.0 from IIS 5.1 is not supported. Please upgrade to IIS 6.0 Administration Pack". Yet if you head to the MS site you may have trouble finding a tool of that name.

If you look carefully though, a search for that there or on the web will find you "Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager for Windows XP", and that's indeed what you want.

After installing, note that it still doesn't make it possible to access IIS 6.1 servers from IIS 5's manager. Instead, it creates a new separate instance of IIS Manager 6 in your Administrative Tools alongside your IIS 5 manager. (The download page warns that it will not appear in "Computer Manager" if you also have the IIS 5.1 manager, but I saw both there and they worked fine.)

Note as well that the IIS 6 manager has no trouble accessing IIS 5 servers, so you may well just choose to use the new manager in place of the old for all your IIS management needs. Of course, it won't let you do anything on your 5.1 IIS that you couldn't do before: still no support for multiple web sites, for instance. (Though see a blog entry I did in the past on ways to get around that.)

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That's so informative. Thanks.
# Posted By brochure printing | 5/13/08 2:59 AM
Thanks
# Posted By Kaye | 5/13/08 9:26 AM
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