IISCnfg /copy - is it possible to omit the IUSR account?

Question

I'm using the IISCnfg script provided to copy the metabase from a master server to other servers (10 in total) when we chang our base configuration.

Here's the command I'm using:

iiscnfg /copy /ts 192.168.5.nnn /tu AdminUser /tp AdminPass /sp /lm/w3svc

The main problem is caused because the servers aren't on a domain so the IUSR_ is different across servers. The copy script does re-create this user on the target machine, however we use our own custom account, for this purpose . This is changed at the top level in IIS. We do this because the user needs to be granted some elevated permissions to read registry keys etc and we want the account to be a known username/password rather a default created one.

So my question boils down to: Is it possible to have IISCnfg omit the part of the metabase which specifies which anonymous user to impersonate? Hence, only copying the site configurations and not the mater settings.

If not, what would be the best workaround for this?

Kind Regards, Andy

Answer 1

I'm seeing the same thing. Did the copy and now the IIS anonymous user account is hosed up on the target machine. Glad I did a IIS metabase/configuration backup before hand.