I’m on my way to the 2009 MVP summit, I had a two hour layover in Detroit. Considering I forgot to bring a book to read, I thought I would geek a little. Within 40 minutes, I had a Server Core box configured with IIS, added to my domain and managing it remotely. Pretty darn cool I must say’ I pulled the commands from a few posts including a post by Ruslan how to install IIS on a Server Core on R2. On my laptop, I have VM Workstation and a small network. I installed a loopback adapter and all VM’s use this as their network adapter. My first VM I installed w2k8 r2 full version, then installed an additional network adapter inside VMWare workstation. I installed RRAS and promoted to a domain controller. This allows any additional VM’s to route the traffic outbound. I’ve done the same thing with Virtual PC 2007, this time around I gave vmware workstation a try. Both seem to be about the same. 🙂
Here are the commands I used along with the links.
Setup your network
netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”Local Area Connection” source=static address=192.168.167.20 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.167.2
Set a DNS Server
netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”Local Area Connection” address=192.168.167.2
Change machine name
hostname
netdom renamecomputer oldBoxname /NewName:NewBoxName
Join the computer to domain
//* means you’ll be prompted for the password
//netdom join /? will show all commands
netdom join Newcomputername /domain:SteveSchofield.local /Userd:administrator /passwordd:*
//To perform basic and default installation of IIS on Server Core run the following command:
//Working with ocsetup seems to be case sensative, so be aware. 🙂
start /w ocsetup IIS-WebServerRole
//Installing ASP.NET
start /w ocsetup WAS-NetFxEnvironment
start /w ocsetup IIS-ISAPIExtensions
start /w ocsetup IIS-ISAPIFilter
start /w ocsetup IIS-NetFxExtensibility
start /w ocsetup IIS-ASPNET
Installing PowerShell and IIS snap-in
start /w ocsetup MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell
windowssystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe
After running this command you should see a PowerShell prompt. Type the following to import IIS snapin:
import-module WebAdministration
After that you can get the list of available IIS cmdlets by typing
get-command –pssnapin WebAdministration
//Logout of Powershell command shell othewise the commands below failed.
//I didn’t figure out the syntax to do the Management service install inside Powershell
Type exit
Install and enabling IIS Remote Management
start /w ocsetup IIS-ManagementService
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWebManagementServer /v EnableRemoteManagement /t REG_DWORD /d 1
//Start Management Service.
net start wmsvc
//Go to another machine and manage IIS
//Article how to use IIS manager to connect remotely
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/158/remote-administration-for-iis-manager/
//Browse to ensure IIS is working
Create a test asp.net page on the Server Core box
//Inside Server Core, type Notepad
Add
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello world from Server Core R2</h1>
</body>
</html>
This is darn cool! Running ASP.NET on Server Core R2 and managing the Website remotely
Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP
Pondering Thought 
Hi Steve
Thanks for the commands in text on this blogpost. Would you care to make a screencast of how you did this? I would appreciate hearing some of the commentary along the way. My big interest is about the installation of IIS and ASP.NET, and deploying an ASP.NET application (the virtualization routing less of an interest).
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I’ll see what I can do. I’m pretty certain the text gives a majority of the story. What issues or understanding did I miss posting?
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When I run: import-module WebAdministration, I get:
The term ‘import-module’ is not recognized as a cmdlet, function, operable prog
ram, or script file. Verify the term and try again.
At line:1 char:14
+ import-module <<<< WebAdministration
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Did you install Powershell?
Installing PowerShell and IIS snap-in
start /w ocsetup MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell
windowssystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe
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