The WebAdministration module

Once IIS is installed, we need to import the WebAdministration module to interact with IIS (using Import-Module WebAdministration). Using the Get-Command cmdlet to find the Get- cmdlets in the module is a good way to get an idea about what the module allows us to work with:

The WebAdministration module

Here, we can see that we have cmdlets to deal with sites, virtual directories, applications, bindings, configuration, and much more. Another thing that is worth mentioning at this point is that the WebAdministration module also adds a new PSProvider called WebAdministration and a PSDrive called IIS, which exposes a hierarchical view of the IIS installation. ...

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