Automating adding sites to IIS7

Question

I'm building some scripts for automatically setting up a developer's machine so everyone has an identical setup & configuration.

One thing in particular I want to automate is the configuration in IIS7. We have a bunch of web apps which need to be hosted locally and would ideally like them all set up automatically. Does anyone know of a sensible way to do this?

Answer 1

its fairly easy with the powershell snap in

Edit: The MSDN docs are pretty whack as usual, but if you rummage about enough you can eventually find all the commands available to you

Answer 2

Hi Jimmy, a little bit of Microsoft.Web.Administration + a bit of LINQPad and you're laughing.