Re: IIS 6.0 Unique ID generation

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:24:21 +0800

I'm not a dev guy. but I don't think it needs the ID to create the website.
take a look at the built-in script.

IISweb.vbs

try iisweb /create

it only ask you for the web root path, site description, ip, port, and host
header name. 

-- 
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
"Sıfırınc?Murat" <@> wrote in message
news:eDLaotmwEHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am hosting multiple web sites on a w2k3 server and want to create web
> sites through an application to reduce the time spent for web site
creation.
> In order to create new web sites I need to assign an empty ID for
> System.DirectoryServices class, so that it can create a new web site with
> that ID. I could easily enumerate used IDs and generate one that is not in
> use and create the new site with that ID but I know MMC uses an algorithm
to
> generate IDs with respect to the ServerComment property (or website name)
> and I want my aplication to use the same procedure for the sake of
> compatibility. This is the reason.
>
>
> "David Wang [Msft]" <someone@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:enYZDkmwEHA.1396@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Using the administration APIs you can easily enumerate available
websites,
> > locate ones matching your criteria, and retrieve its ID.
> >
> > Can you please give the reason(s) why you need to be able to predict the
> > Website ID before creating the website?  Are you also aware that you can
> > actually specify the ID for a website (you get an exception if the ID is
> > already used)?
> >
> > Anyways, I cannot think of a reason why anyone needs to know the
> algorithm,
> > including Microsoft...
> >
> > -- 
> > //David
> > IIS
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> > //
> > "Sıfırınc?Murat" <@> wrote in message
> > news:OkEMKMlwEHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > As everybody knows, IIS 6.0 assigns unique IDs based on the specified
web
> > site name. I have been developing an programmatic administration tool
for
> > IIS 6.0 and I need the algorithm how IIS generates these identifiers. I
> have
> > been through MSDN and Google search but have nothing usable.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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