[IIS6] Cannot Access IIS Metabase Through IIS Admin Objects

From: s-p-a-m (wmays_at_(s-p-a-m)forsythes.com.au)
Date: 07/05/05

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    Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 06:26:02 -0700
    
    

    Hi,

    I am currently in the process of upgrading a windows 2000 web server to
    windows 2003 ...

    The developer has created a staging system that transfers the website
    between a development and production server, and then switches the home
    directory of the website on the production machine - in effect creating a
    instant transfer to the new version of the site.

    However ...

    Under Windows 2003 / IIS 6, The staging system fails when trying to read
    properties from the metabase.

         objMetabase = getObject("IIS://DEVEL/W3SVC")

    This returns the error code '70 - Permission denied'
    Adding the user invoking the script to the local administrators group fixes
    the problem. This, however, seems to be a bad move security wise ... the less
    users with admin rights the better!
    Q285286 shows that (at least for IIS 4 and 5) the only way around this is to
    add the user to the local admin group - it does not mention IIS 6 in the
    applicability list.

    Out of this, 2 questions:
    - Has this KB article been revised / re-released for IIS 6?
    - Is there a more secure way of getting this to work (preferably without
    modifying the code)?

    -- 
    Regards,
    Will Mays
    

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