Vista - how to (1) change a IIS v5 "local path" and (2) windows service pa

Can someone offer the powershell "easiest" way to:

(1) change a IIS v5 "local path" from X to Y
(2) change a windows service path from X to Y

All on Windows XP.

I need this so that i can use powershell to easily switch my applications
(asp.net web services and installed windows services) from one branch to
another to test. it's a real pain to have to manually go into IIS and reset
the vdir location, uninstall the services and reinstall in the same location,
etc.

Steve wrote:I'm not a pro web developer, so I'll apologize beforehand. Are you sure
you're using the proper terminology? "windows services" kind of threw
me off, for example.

I'll try to dig into it a bit more over the weekend if nobody else helps
out.

Marco

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Hi Steve

To change the "Local Path" path for the site try:

$iis=[adsi]"IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root"
$iis.path = "yourPath"
$iis.setinfo()

To change a specific VirtualDir "Local Path"

$vDir = $iis.psbase.children | where {$_.SchemaClassName -eq "IISWebVirtualDir"
-and $_.AppRoot -match "VirtualDirName"}
$vDir.Path = "yourPath"
$vDir.setinfo()



To change a service executable path:

$svc = gwmi win32_service -filter "name='alerter'"
$svc.change($null,"c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe",$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null)




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