PowerShell 1.0: Adding Virtual FTP Directories to IIS 6 or 7
While my firm explores using WebDAV and SharePoint 2007 for exchanging large amounts of files, we're temporarily using FTP dropboxes to fill the void. Last Monday, I setup 11 new accounts and it took a total of one hour to complete the same 15 step process (give or take) for each account. By the time I was finished, I decided automating FTP account creation would be my first PowerShell project. What you see below is part of that project. The code below creates a virtual directory in the "Default FTP Site" of the machine that is running the PowerShell script. The virtual directory called "NewUser" is mapped to C:\FTP\NewUser and is set to be both readable and writable. For the record, I couldn't get WMI to work (get-wmiobject) and that's the reason I decided to use the .NET's Directory Services support. server = $env:computername $service = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("IIS://$server/MSFTPSVC") $site = $service.psbase.c...