Running IIS MMC from workstation

14 Jul 2005 9:11 PM

-=gu=-

Hello,
I am the win2K server admin and one of our groups wants to administer a very
dynamic new website where they will be constantly be putting up quick pages
for different clients to see.
I have gone into IIS and properties of the website and have added an AD test
user to the Operators tab as well as granting it permission to the site's
file system. If at all possible I would prefer that they NOT have to log into
the server in order to administer IIS.
So I loaded IIS on a test XP box and have logged in as the test user. I
brought up the local IIS and did a "connect to" and connected to the win2k
web server. It had no problem connecting, however there was nothing under
"web sites". I logged off the XP box and logged back in as the domain admin
and ran the local IIS MMC, and connected to the web server. This time I saw
all 10 websites running on the server.

What I find REALLY odd about this is that I allowed my test user to log into
the server. When on the server and running IIS he sees EXACTLY what I want
him to - only this one site.

Now I did not run the IIS 5.0 permissions because I looked at it and it
didn't seem to offer what I wanted.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks!

18 Jul 2005 5:28 PM

Tom Kaminski [MVP]

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"-=gu=-" <g*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EBA68CDF-C51E-4017-883F-E022D83A75CA@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> I am the win2K server admin and one of our groups wants to administer a
> very
> dynamic new website where they will be constantly be putting up quick
> pages
> for different clients to see.
> I have gone into IIS and properties of the website and have added an AD
> test
> user to the Operators tab as well as granting it permission to the site's
> file system. If at all possible I would prefer that they NOT have to log
> into
> the server in order to administer IIS.
> So I loaded IIS on a test XP box and have logged in as the test user. I
> brought up the local IIS and did a "connect to" and connected to the win2k
> web server. It had no problem connecting, however there was nothing under
> "web sites". I logged off the XP box and logged back in as the domain
> admin
> and ran the local IIS MMC, and connected to the web server. This time I
> saw
> all 10 websites running on the server.
>
> What I find REALLY odd about this is that I allowed my test user to log
> into
> the server. When on the server and running IIS he sees EXACTLY what I want
> him to - only this one site.
>
> Now I did not run the IIS 5.0 permissions because I looked at it and it
> didn't seem to offer what I wanted.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks!

Does this help explain things?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;298969

--
Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
http://www.iistoolshed.com/ - tools, scripts, and utilities for running IIS

19 Jul 2005 3:19 PM

-=gu=-

Tom, thanks very much for your response. I checked out the links you included
and found out exactly what the deal was. I have decided to put up a small web
server for this group to use and have granted them permission to log into it
and configure their sites. I've also run the AD permissions wizard to a
single OU where they can set up their user accounts for basic authentication.
Thanks again!

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"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" wrote:

> "-=gu=-" <g*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EBA68CDF-C51E-4017-883F-E022D83A75CA@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> > I am the win2K server admin and one of our groups wants to administer a
> > very
> > dynamic new website where they will be constantly be putting up quick
> > pages
> > for different clients to see.
> > I have gone into IIS and properties of the website and have added an AD
> > test
> > user to the Operators tab as well as granting it permission to the site's
> > file system. If at all possible I would prefer that they NOT have to log
> > into
> > the server in order to administer IIS.
> > So I loaded IIS on a test XP box and have logged in as the test user. I
> > brought up the local IIS and did a "connect to" and connected to the win2k
> > web server. It had no problem connecting, however there was nothing under
> > "web sites". I logged off the XP box and logged back in as the domain
> > admin
> > and ran the local IIS MMC, and connected to the web server. This time I
> > saw
> > all 10 websites running on the server.
> >
> > What I find REALLY odd about this is that I allowed my test user to log
> > into
> > the server. When on the server and running IIS he sees EXACTLY what I want
> > him to - only this one site.
> >
> > Now I did not run the IIS 5.0 permissions because I looked at it and it
> > didn't seem to offer what I wanted.
> >
> > Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks!
>
> Does this help explain things?
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;298969
>
> --
> Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> http://www.iistoolshed.com/ - tools, scripts, and utilities for running IIS
>
>
>