Installing Web Server (IIS) Role using PowerShell on Windows Server

Simple steps to Install Web Server (IIS) Role using PowerShell on Windows Server

As now a days we are more working on Automation, we want everything on to be in a script or commands.

So below are the steps which we can use it to automate the Web Server (IIS) installation.

First, you can check is Web Server (IIS) is configured or not by going to Server Manager as shown below.

As its not installed, we will be configuring it through PowerShell scripts. With easy and simple steps

In PowerShell we get below options for “Install-windowsfeature”, this is the command we are using to get the IIS (Web Server) Role installed.

You can also refer Microsoft website for more details on this command.

We can use the below command to configure the Web server, we are using the options as per our requirements.

Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-App-Dev,Web-Security,Web-Performance, Web-Webserver,Web-Application-Proxy -IncludeAllSubFeature

While executing the command, it shows the progress of execution.

Once the installation is completed, it will shows the success results.

The Options which we get for this command, based on the usage you can provide them with the ‘,’(comma).

Below are the list of options and the Roles service which you can provide based on the usage.

Roles Service	Name
Web Server	Web-WebServer
Common HTTP Features	Web-Common-Http
Default Document	Web-Default-Doc
Directory Browsing	Web-Dir-Browsing
HTTP Errors	Web-Http-Errors
Static Content	Web-Static-Content
HTTP Redirection	Web-Http-Redirect
WebDAV Publishing	Web-DAV-Publishing
Health and Diagnostics	Web-Health
HTTP Logging	Web-Http-Logging
Custom Logging	Web-Custom-Logging
Logging Tools	Web-Log-Libraries
ODBC Logging	Web-ODBC-Logging
Request Monitor	Web-Request-Monitor
Tracing	Web-Http-Tracing
Performance	Web-Performance
Static Content Compression	Web-Stat-Compression
Dynamic Content Compression	Web-Dyn-Compression
Security	Web-Security
Request Filtering	Web-Filtering
Basic Authentication	Web-Basic-Auth
Centralized SSL Certificate Support	Web-CertProvider
Client Certificate Mapping Authentication	Web-Client-Auth
Digest Authentication	Web-Digest-Auth
IIS Client Certificate Mapping Authentication	Web-Cert-Auth
IP and Domain Restrictions	Web-IP-Security
URL Authorization	Web-Url-Auth
Windows Authentication	Web-Windows-Auth
Application Development	Web-App-Dev
.NET Extensibility 3.5	Web-Net-Ext
.NET Extensibility 4.6	Web-Net-Ext45
Application Initialization	Web-AppInit
ASP	Web-ASP
ASP.NET 3.5	Web-Asp-Net
ASP.NET 4.6	Web-Asp-Net45
CGI	Web-CGI
ISAPI Extensions	Web-ISAPI-Ext
ISAPI Filters	Web-ISAPI-Filter
Server Side Includes	Web-Includes
WebSocket Protocol	Web-WebSockets
FTP Server	Web-Ftp-Server
FTP Service	Web-Ftp-Service
FTP Extensibility	Web-Ftp-Ext
Management Tools	Web-Mgmt-Tools
IIS 6 Management Compatibility	Web-Mgmt-Compat
IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility	Web-Metabase
IIS 6 Scripting Tools	Web-Lgcy-Scripting
IIS 6 WMI Compatibility	Web-WMI
IIS Management Scripts and Tools	Web-Scripting-Tools
Management Service	Web-Mgmt-Service

After Installation, if you check the Server Manager Dashboard you can see IIS

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You Can also refer Configuring IIS Server on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter – GUI

To Automate the website creation and Certificate Configuration, you can refer below sites

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