Diary of a Bad Golfer

There may come a time when you need to grant someone Read-Only access to IIS, perhaps for developers to be able to see settings without being able to make changes to them.

 If you’ve been in this position then you also know that it’s not a built-in feature with IIS - which to me, is suprising.

 So how do you do it?  Well, you do it by using an un-supported work around of course!

You will need Metabase Explorer for this - it is included with the IIS 6 Resource Kit

Create new group
Create a special group for non-local admin users, eg DevelopmentIIS
Add the users to the DevelopmentIIS group
Add the DevelopmentIIS group to the IIS_WPG local group

Grant Basic Metabase Access
Run Metabase Explorer, right click on the COMPUTER node property and select permissions
Grant the DevelopmentIIS group - READ permissions
Click on LM (Local Machine), right click, and select permissions
Grant DevelopmentIIS group - READ permissions
Click on W3SVC, right click, and select permissions
Grant DevelopmentIIS group - READ permissions
Repeat for App Pools, Filters, and Info nodes.

Currently Listening to: Tool - Opiate

I find myself listening to XM Radio a LOT and thought I’d list a couple things I like, the first is a program called XampDesktop, it is used instead of the XM Online web page. It sits in your system try, integrates with MSN Messenger, allows you to create artist/song alerts, channel presets, and perhaps most importantly - doesn’t time out!! I leave mine running 24×7.

XampD can be downloaded at: http://xampd.imomo.net/download/

Another one I like is Mini XM - it allows you to play XM Radio on your mobile phone, browse to http://mobile.minixm.com/DS/MOBILE/ on your mobile phone to listen.

Currently Listening to: Nine Inch Nails - Ruiner