PowerShell ways to install IIS7.x

We’re talking here about PowerShell and IIS; maybe the first thing to do should have been to install IIS (7.x) with PowerShell…
In the following examples, we’ll see a “minimal” (Server Core compliant) installation of IIS. The only purpose is to see the different ways to do it, not to have a proper installation, which will be the point of a future post. So, I mean the following list of role and features:

  • Web Server (IIS)
  • Internet Information Services (Web Server)
  • Common HTTP Features
  • Static Content
  • Default Document
  • Directory Browsing
  • HTTP Errors
  • Health and Diagnostics
  • HTTP Logging
  • Logging Tools
  • Request Monitor
  • Security
  • Request Filtering
  • Static Content Compression
  • Management Tools
  • Windows Process Activation Service
  • Windows Process Activation Service – Process Model

For the complete list of available role and feature, have a look at the documentation: Web Server (IIS) Role

 
So, let’s have some fun. There’s (at least) 3 ways to do it:

  1. pkgmgr (Package Manager Command-Line)
  2. Start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-Security;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel
    
  3. pkgmgr (Package Manager Command-Line) with an unattend file
  4. # Gets the date in a string variable for logfile naming
    $date=(Get-Date).ToString('dd-MM-yyyy')
    # Gets the OS Version number to append the unattend.xml file
    $OSInstallVer = $(Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess).FullInstallVer
    (Get-Content .\unattend.xml) | 
    ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "OS-VERSION-NB", "$OSInstallVer"} | 
    Set-Content .\unattend.xml
    
    Start /w pkgmgr /n:.\unattend.xml /l:.\install-IIS-$date.log
    

    The unattend file

    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"
        xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State">
    <servicing>
       <!-- Install a selectable update in a package that is in the Windows Foundation namespace -->
       <package action="configure">
          <assemblyIdentity
             name="Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Package"
             version="OS-VERSION-NB"
             language="neutral"
             processorArchitecture="amd64"
             publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"
             versionScope="nonSxS"
          />
        <selection name="IIS-WebServerRole" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-WebServer" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-CommonHttpFeatures" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HttpErrors" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HttpRedirect" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ApplicationDevelopment" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-NetFxExtensibility" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HttpLogging" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-LoggingLibraries" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-RequestMonitor" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HttpTracing" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-Security" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-URLAuthorization" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-RequestFiltering" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-IPSecurity" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-Performance" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-WebServerManagementTools" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ManagementScriptingTools" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-Metabase" state="false"/>
        <selection name="WAS-WindowsActivationService" state="true"/>
        <selection name="WAS-ProcessModel" state="true"/>
        <selection name="WAS-NetFxEnvironment" state="false"/>
        <selection name="WAS-ConfigurationAPI" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HostableWebCore" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-StaticContent" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-DefaultDocument" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-DirectoryBrowsing" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-WebDAV" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ASPNET" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ASP" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-CGI" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ISAPIExtensions" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ISAPIFilter" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ServerSideIncludes" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-CustomLogging" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-BasicAuthentication" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-HttpCompressionStatic" state="true"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ManagementConsole" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ManagementService" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-WMICompatibility" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-LegacyScripts" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-LegacySnapIn" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-FTPServer" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-FTPSvc" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-FTPExtensibility" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-WindowsAuthentication" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-DigestAuthentication" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ClientCertificateMappingAuthentication" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-IISCertificateMappingAuthentication" state="false"/>
        <selection name="IIS-ODBCLogging" state="false"/>
      </package>
    </servicing>
    </unattend>
    
  5. Add-WindowsFeature (Add-WindowsFeature Cmdlet)
  6. Add-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Tools,WAS,WAS-Process-Model
    

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