Re: Running IIS MMC from workstation

From: Tom Kaminski [MVP] ((A_at_T))
Date: 07/18/05 

Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:28:22 -0400

"-=gu=-" <gu@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 

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Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
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