Remote Administration

You have two options for remotely administering IIS. To remotely administer IIS over the Internet or through a proxy server, you should use the browser-based Internet Services Manager (HTML). To remotely administer IIS over an intranet, you can use either the browser-based Internet Services Manager (HTML) or the IIS snap-in that is hosted in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

Note   You can use Microsoft Terminal Services over a network connection (such as LAN, PPTP, or dial-up) to remotely administer IIS.

To enable the browser-based Internet Services Manager (HTML)
  1. In the IIS snap-in on the local computer, open the property sheets for the Administration Web site.
  2. Note the TCP port number on the Web Site property sheet.
  3. In the Directory Security property sheet, click the Edit button under IP address and domain name restrictions to set permissions for computers that will be used to administer IIS remotely.

 

To start the browser-based Internet Services Manager (HTML)
To remotely access Internet Services Manager (HTML) as a Web site Operator

 

To use the IIS snap-in for administering a remote site on an intranet
  1. Launch the IIS snap-in on any computer on your network running Windows.
  2. To find the installation of IIS on the network that you want to administer, click the Computer icon on the toolbar.
  3. Note   If you do not have TCP/IP and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) installed, you may see only those installations of IIS that are on the same subnet as the computer you are using.

 

To access the online documentation locally or remotely

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