Scripting the creation of IIS Web Sites

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Hello

I've hacked together a script which automates almost everything I need to do when creating a new web site including creating the new anonymous user.

Unfortunately IIS seems to have an issue with this user.

o The directory structure is created ok
o The anonymous user is created ok
o Appropriate permissions are set ok
o The site is created ok.

Using the IIS MMC I can see that IIS is using the newly created user for anonymous access. Navigating to the site returns a 401.1 every time until I manually reset the password for Anonymous user access in the MMC.

Speaking to Microsoft earlier today I was assured that kb:883489 (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=883489) is not relevant here.

Clues appreciated.

Oh yes, one more thing. So far, I've failed to turn up a usable example of a script (I'm using WSH:vbScript) that will create an Application Pool.

Thanks for reading.
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William Tasso
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