Before you can use IIS, you must install it onto your host. Like other roles/features of Windows Server 2016 covered in this book, you install IIS by using the Install-WindowsFeature
cmdlet. Once you have installed the web server, you take a look at the host after the installation is complete.
You run this recipe on SRV1
, a member server running Windows Server 2016. This server is a server in the Reskit.Org
domain.
- Open a PowerShell console and install the
Web-Server
and all sub-features:
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server ` -IncludeAllSubFeature ` -IncludeManagementTools
- See what web related features are installed on
SRV1
:
Get-WindowsFeature -Name Web* | Where-Object Installed
- Check the
WebAdministration
module and discover how many commands are in the module:
Get-Module -Name WebAdministration -ListAvailable Get-Command -Module webadministration | Measure-Object | Select-Object count...