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rlim

2004-02-25, 5:34 pm

We have a junior program developer who is creating .net web applications, we have IIS installed on his XP for him to test the applications. Currently he is set as power user/debug user/VS developer. We do not want to set him as local administrator, but i
t seems like that is only way he could access IIS from MMC. I might of missed a KB article or some of the threads on this forum regards to this issue. If you have any suggestions or solutions would be deeply appreciated. Thank you.
Tom Kaminski [MVP]

2004-02-26, 9:34 am

"rlim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have a junior program developer who is creating .net web applications,

we have IIS installed on his XP for him to test the applications. Currently
he is set as power user/debug user/VS developer. We do not want to set him
as local administrator, but it seems like that is only way he could access
IIS from MMC. I might of missed a KB article or some of the threads on this
forum regards to this issue. If you have any suggestions or solutions would
be deeply appreciated. Thank you.


A user needs to be in the local Administrators group in order to access IIS.

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Jeff Cochran

2004-02-26, 10:34 am

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:36:09 -0800, "rlim"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>We have a junior program developer who is creating .net web applications, we have IIS installed on his XP for him to test the applications. Currently he is set as power user/debug user/VS developer. We do not want to set him as local administrator, but

it seems like that is only way he could access IIS from MMC.

That's correct.

Jeff
John Alderson

2004-02-26, 11:34 am

"rlim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4471AF99-1BDB-40B2-8C70-D7C21B2BF4A7@microsoft.com...
> We have a junior program developer who is creating .net web applications,

we have IIS installed on his XP for him to test the applications. Currently
he is set as power user/debug user/VS developer. We do not want to set him
as local administrator, but it seems like that is only way he could access
IIS from MMC. I might of missed a KB article or some of the threads on this
forum regards to this issue. If you have any suggestions or solutions would
be deeply appreciated. Thank you.
-------------------------
rlim,

The documented answer to this from Microsoft is "you must be an
Administrator". However, like you and many others, I have had a strong
desire to maintain some semblance of operational sanity with IIS servers.
To satisfy that need, I've put together a set of configurations that you can
use to grant limited IIS Administrator privileges without making these folks
full-fledged Administrators of the Operating System.

See my website at http://www.johnalderson.com - choose "IIS" from the left
hand menu then choose "IIS Operators".

Or, use this link for a non-framed direct link =>
http://www.johnalderson.com/IIS/iisoperators.htm

This technique will allow folks to add and modify virtual directories and
even websites, depending on what metabase level you make ACL changes. I
have used this method in production environments with success. That said,
the methods are certainly not perfect but I welcome feedback and/or
scenarios to research.

John Alderson

Bernard

2004-02-27, 2:34 am

Yes, you can play around with MetaACLs to grant related access permissions.

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Bernard Cheah
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"John Alderson" <jalderson.nodata@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> "rlim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> we have IIS installed on his XP for him to test the applications.

Currently
> he is set as power user/debug user/VS developer. We do not want to set

him
> as local administrator, but it seems like that is only way he could access
> IIS from MMC. I might of missed a KB article or some of the threads on

this
> forum regards to this issue. If you have any suggestions or solutions

would
> be deeply appreciated. Thank you.
> -------------------------
> rlim,
>
> The documented answer to this from Microsoft is "you must be an
> Administrator". However, like you and many others, I have had a strong
> desire to maintain some semblance of operational sanity with IIS servers.
> To satisfy that need, I've put together a set of configurations that you

can
> use to grant limited IIS Administrator privileges without making these

folks
> full-fledged Administrators of the Operating System.
>
> See my website at http://www.johnalderson.com - choose "IIS" from the left
> hand menu then choose "IIS Operators".
>
> Or, use this link for a non-framed direct link =>
> http://www.johnalderson.com/IIS/iisoperators.htm
>
> This technique will allow folks to add and modify virtual directories and
> even websites, depending on what metabase level you make ACL changes. I
> have used this method in production environments with success. That said,
> the methods are certainly not perfect but I welcome feedback and/or
> scenarios to research.
>
> John Alderson
>



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