Powershell – Getting all virtual directories for a IIS6 web site using WMI

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I want to list all virtual directories that belong to a web site with a certain name using WMI and PowerShell.

I know I can list all virtual directories on a server using the code below, but how can I filter out only those that belong to a specific site?

Get-WmiObject IIsWebVirtualDir -namespace "ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2"

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Well, taking the simplest approach here and filtering based on the properties returned from your given example, I would probably opt to use the site identifier portion in the Name property:

Get-WmiObject IIsWebVirtualDir -namespace "ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2" | `
     Where-Object { $_.name -like "W3SVC/1/*" }

The above example only shows virtual directories on the default website that is set up with IIS first install. This always has the identifier 1.

Note: the backtick ` after the bar is the line continuation character (actually it's the escape character, but I'm escaping the EOL,) like _ in Visual Basic. I'm using this so the ugly horizontal scrollbars don't show up in the code block above.

-Oisin

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## Settings
$siteName = 'Default Web Site'
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$virtualDirectoryPath = "IIS:\Sites\$siteName\$virtualDirectoryName"

## Create Virtual Directory where physicalpath is an UNC-path (New-WebVirtualDirectory wont do)
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## Change 'Connect As' settings (New-WebVirtualDirectory don't include Username and Password)
##userName must have the N capitalized
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Set-ItemProperty $virtualDirectoryPath -Name password -Value 'Password'

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Remove-Item -Recurse -Force some_dir

does indeed work as advertised here.

rm -r -fo some_dir

are shorthand aliases that work too.

As far as I understood it, the -Recurse parameter just doesn't work correctly when you try deleting a filtered set of files recursively. For killing a single dir and everything below it seems to work fine.

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