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I'm migrating from one computer to another and in order to serve up my web app locally IIS requires some handler mappings in order to serve .svc extensions. I found on the new computer I'm missing those mappings. I'd like to script the creation of these mappings so that it's reliably repeatable. I found there's a powershell command Get-WebHandler and New-WebHandler. I was hoping I could get the hanlder mappings from the remote (old) IIS instance and pipe that into the new hanlder command.

Can I reference a remote IIS machine with Get-WebHandler or is there another command I would use to get IIS settings that I would then pipe into Get-WebHandler?

gh0st
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The *-WebHandler cmdlets don't work against a remote server, so you can not pipe existing handlers into New-WebHandler.

There are some hacks you can do:

  • Copy the node from ApplicationHost.config on the old server to the new server.

  • Get the output from Get-WebHandler into a csv file. Use that file to create new handlers on using New-WebHandler. This requires some coding.

  • Create a PowerShell script from scratch to create your custom handlers with New-WebHandler. You could use pipe the output of Get-WebHandler from both servers into a text-file and do a Diff, so you can find what is different.

  • Move custom handlers into the web.config of your site and the copy the site.

Peter Hahndorf
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