Very useful Rick! For some reason IIS does not come as standard with the very useful feature to import an application as a ZIP file and Microsoft make it super hard to find the link to download that add-on. It forces you to first install the "Web Platform Platform Installer Platform" or something, and then find an obscure link. I'm guessing that can't be done from PowerShell, but it sure would be useful.

Rich,

Web Deploy can be downloaded without WebPI (https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/category/deploy-and-migrate). While it is possible to use PowerShell (or any other scripting toy, or msiexec) to get the bits installed, the installer's user interface is the only documented way to fully customize the setup.

This looks good, Rick. I ended up doing something similar with Desired State Configuration (DSC) to configure IIS the way that I wanted. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/windowsfeatureresource This simplifies the re-running of my configuration script, but doesn't always provide the level of granularity that I need. I combined it with non-DSC PowerShell that manually checks to see if things are already configured, and now have a re-runnable script that I can run on my "pet" servers. Maybe this will become less important once I start treating my servers more like cattle, and stand up new ones every deployment.

Does anyone know, how to enable (IIS 6 Management Console, IIS 6 Scripting Tools, IIS 6 WMI Compatibility) using command line? This is for Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit

I second the need for a powershell script for IIS 6. I'm currently writing an automated installation for BizTalk 2016 and part of the prerequisites are:

For Windows 10 In Web Management Tools: also check: IIS 6 Management Compatbility IIS 6 Management Console IIS 6 Scripting Tools IIS Metabase and IIS confirguration compatibility IIS Management Console

In Wold Wide Web Services, expand Security and also check: Basic Authentication Windows Authentication

@Jan - use Get-WindowsOptionalFeature and look through the list - it's in there. See how I query for features not installed int the post.

Thanks for posting Rick, very useful.

I got an error on Windows 2016 (1607):- IIS-NetFxExtensibility, IIS-NetFxExtensibility45, IIS-ASPNET45 all errored with:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature : One or several parent features are disabled so current feature can not be enabled.

I enabled the following feature and then the above worked: NetFx4Extended-ASPNET45

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName NetFx4Extended-ASPNET45

Nice! -- I noticed a couple of these error out because a parent feature is not installed; it looks like if you add the "-All" switch to end of each of the "Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature" commands, then you will not encounter this issue (also, some of the commands are listed more than once, I'm guessing that was to combat this issue, but with -All, it's not necessary anymore).

Also, I prepended my script with this (to make sure it only ran if IIS was missing):

$installed = (Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | `
    where { $_.state -eq "Enabled" -and $_.FeatureName -eq "IIS-WebServer" } | Measure-Object).Count;

if ($installed -gt 0) { return; }

Great article! I've found two small problems on Windows 10 1709:

1. add Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName NetFx4Extended-ASPNET45 instead of Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-NetFxExtensibility45 (which probably is a typing mistake)

2. you have to put the Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-ASPNET45 as the last line of the script: instead you'll get a registry error (which probably is the "One or several parent features are disabled so current feature can not be enabled." on Winsrv 2016 ) Thanks!

Super article Rick, Thanks ! is there a way to figure out what minimal set of components are required, by looking at the web.config of a webapp?

@anupam - Nope - not really. You know you'll need ASP.NET which means you'll need most things I mentioned above but it's still on a case by case basis to pick out what you need.

A couple of failings here: You never once mention how/where to get "WebPlatform Installer;" nor "chocolatey" I love chocolate; but you seem to have built-in assumptions that all readers magically know what there are and where to find them. One commenter at least provided a link to WebDeploy.

Those are essential refernces, if you expect readers easily be able to easily follow this. That said, this is AMAZING work - nothing short of 'really cool!'. I've used this quite a bit since you first posted it. THANK YOU!

So, what is this magical "WebPlatform Installer" - is it an MS piece? Another feature? Where can I get it? And, same question for "chocolatey" - I will Google for these vs. waiting for a response, but ???

@Josh - you are right in that I make some basic assumptions here. This is a developer Weblog and I post developer stuff and if you're not a developer dealing with this stuff this blog will be a slog.

That said - if you can't figure out how to search for Web Platform Installer or Chocolatey then you probably are not in the intended audience. No offense, but true. That doesn't mean you can't use any of this, you just need to do a little extra work to add to your repertoire of tools. If you are administering a Web Server those two distribution tools will be critical and it'll be a worthwhile. Happy searching...

I love powershell for installing almost everything now. This one works flawlessly for a standard Laserfiche Web deployment. Thanks so much!

Rick,

Thank you so much for all of your posts!

You have helped me tremendously, with your concise explanations and cogent, clear tips!

You have saved me so much time.

Thanks, Sam

Rick,

I am not sure what happened to my previous post. But, I am trying to have this installed on Windows 10 desktop for developers. Default it is going to be installed on C drive. Now, with the C drive being a VDISK and if it is locked down that users cannot make changes, will it affect in anyway if they have develop the websites and put it in InetPub folder in D drive? Next, I also got a script from this Microsoft link which be used to automate the relocating of the Inetpub contents, and will leave the existing directory structure untouched. Will this affect your installation in anyway? I am going to build a new Windows 10 box with C drive and D drive and I am going to run your script to install IIS and also I am going to run this script to see how it goes.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2752331/guidance-for-relocation-of-iis-7-0-and-iis-7-5-content-directories

I found this article useful, but I already had another method of achieving the same result.

However, I wanted to provide what I changed to make the script above 'less redundant'

# This script installs IIS and the features required to
# run West Wind Web Connection.
#
# * Make sure you run this script from a Powershell Admin Prompt!
# * Make sure Powershell Execution Policy is bypassed to run these scripts:
# * YOU MAY HAVE TO RUN THIS COMMAND PRIOR TO RUNNING THIS SCRIPT!

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process

# To list all Windows Features: dism /online /Get-Features
# Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online 
# LIST All IIS FEATURES: 
# Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where FeatureName -like 'IIS-*'

$List = @( )

$List += "WebServerRole"    , "WebServer"       , "CommonHTTPFeatures"     , 
         "HTTPErrors"       , "HTTTPRedirect"   , "ApplicationDevelopment" | % { "IIS-$_" }

$List += "NetFX4Extended-ASPNET45"

$List += "NetFXExtensibility45"     , "HealthAndDiagnostics"        , "HTTPLogging"            , 
         "LoggingLibraries"         , "RequestMonitor"              , "HTTPTracing"            ,
         "Security"                 , "RequestFilgering"            , "Performance"            , 
         "WebServerManagementTools" , "IIS6ManagementCompatibility" , "Metabase"               ,
         "ManagementConsole"        , "BasicAuthentication"         , "WindowsAuthentication"  , 
         "StaticContent"            , "DefaultDocument"             , "WebSockets"             ,
         "ApplicationInit"          , "ISAPIExtensions"             , "ISAPIFilter"            , 
         "HTTPCompressionStatic"    , "ASPNET45"                    | % { "IIS-$_" }

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | Select FeatureName , State | Sort FeatureName | % { 

    ForEach ( $i in $List ) 
    { 
        If ( $i -eq $_.FeatureName -and $_.State -ne "Enabled" ) 
        { 
            Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName $i 
        }
    }
}

# If you need classic ASP (not recommended)
#Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-ASP


# The following optional components require 
# Chocolatey OR Web Platform Installer to install


# Install UrlRewrite Module for Extensionless Urls (optional)
###  & "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\WebpiCmd-x64.exe" /install /Products:UrlRewrite2 /AcceptEULA /SuppressPostFinish
#choco install urlrewrite -y

# Install WebDeploy for Deploying to IIS (optional)
### & "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\WebpiCmd-x64.exe" /install /Products:WDeployNoSMO /AcceptEULA /SuppressPostFinish
# choco install webdeploy -y

# Disable Loopback Check on a Server - to get around no local Logins on Windows Server
# New-ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa -Name "DisableLoopbackCheck" -Value "1" -PropertyType dword

At any rate, I didn't change much beyond the main block, and when testing, it does appear to have an issue being able to pull from a management tool or parent feature, so I may get around to fleshing it out a bit more... I just liked what I saw, it's a lot like the version I put together ... (this script does far more than just setting up IIS... which is around the line '1882' mark )

https://github.com/mcc85s/PSD-Remaster/blob/master/Install/Provision-Hybrid.ps1

It's in a section where adding a BITS/IIS server is an option... bears a lot of similarities to what you have here, but, goes in far more depth.

Still, I learn things when I see how other people approach similar tasks. So, kudos for making this... and feel free to use anything you see from my end.

-MC

@Michael - nice

All, My current client is using the WIX Toolset to create a MSI for the installation of their product. Now I have the requirement to check if IIS-WebSockets are installed - if so, enable the installation of a specific website that makes use of it.

So, sofar I found the following options:

1. use a WIX RegistrySearch to find out if IIS-WebSockets are enable or not;
2. use a WIX FileSearch to find out if the websocket.dll exists on the target machine;
3. run a PowerShell script inside WIX (silent, no UI) that determines if the IIS-WebSockets component is installed and if it is enabled or not.

Notes on number 1: until now I have found a couple of Registry keys on the web that either simply do not exist on Windows 10, or do not seem to indicate whether the component is enabled or not, so it's not very useful. To give an example: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\Notifications\OptionalFeatures\IIS-WebSockets (DWORD values stay 0 regardles of WebSocket Protocol enabled or disabled).

Notes on number 2: The dll may exists on the target machine or not, but that still does not give me any clue whether it is enabled or not. So also not very useful.

Notes on number 3: This may well give me the information I need, so it sounds like the perfect option, but then the installer gets dependent on whether the PowerShell utility is installed or not.

Question is: Can you or anybody give me any advice to what my best option is in this particular case? Thanks a lot in advance for any help you can offer! Regards, Pieter

I'm curious if there's a way to do the opposite and take an existing IIS configuration and list all of the options that are enabled? Is it simply a backup and restore procedure?

Basically I need to migrate an existing IIS application from one cloud provider to another and I think this is what I'm after.

Hi,

2 Years late but anyway.

as I needed it to create a template here is the PS to get a list of "enabled" Features 😃

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | Where-Object { $_.State -ne "Disabled" } | Select FeatureName | Format-Table