[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change]
Metabase
The metabase is a hierarchical repository for most IIS
configuration values, while a few IIS configuration values are
stored in the Registry.
This section contains:
- About the Metabase:
Overview of the IIS metabase.
- Metabase Structure:
Describes the hierarchical structure of the Metabase, inheritance
of property values. Also describes the metabase schema.
- Configuring the Metabase: Discusses the various methods for
configuring the metabase. There is a discussion of history files,
editing the MetaBase.xml file while IIS is running, as well as an
explanation of extending the XML metabase schema.
- Metabase Security: Describes file level security of the
metabase files, encrypted metabase properties, and auditing. Also
discusses programmatic access to metabase nodes and renaming or
relocating MetaBase.xml.
- Metabase Reliability: Discuses backing up and restoring the
metabase.
- Metabase Import and Export: Describes Site cloning, application
cloning, and creating a metabase template to import/merge from
other IIS computers.
- Metabase Changes for IIS 6.0: Overview of the metabase properties that have
changed in IIS 6.0.
- Metabase Scenarios: Scenarios that illustrate metabase
functionality.
Related Resources that are not in this section:
Metabase Property Reference: This section contains a reference page for each
property in the metabase.
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