"Neufusion" <mikeymiller@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1157574048.439416.269740@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> Goal:
> Allow domain users the ability to reset / restart IIS remotely without
> Administrator rights.
>
> Scenario:
> A certain server is running IIS 5.0 which needs to be restarted once in
> a while when a ASP.NET page hangs.
>
> When the ASP.NET page hangs, it's worker process is maxed out, but IIS
> is still available and serving standard ASP pages.
>
> An Adminstrator can restart IIS remotely via an ASP page that runs
> IISRESET.EXE and allows normal operation to continue.
>
> Here is the key peice of code:
> set wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
> wshell.run "%COMSPEC% /C iisreset.exe >> C:\adminreset.log", 0, TRUE
> set wshell = nothing
>
> A User cannot run the ASP page because IISRESET.EXE returns an error:
> Attempting stop...
> Restart attempt failed.
> Access denied, you must be an administrator of the remote computer to
> use this
> command. Either have your account added to the administrator local
> group of
> the remote computer or to the domain administrator global group.
>
>
>
> Note:
> I understand there are much better ways to handle the problematic
> ASP.NET application/process, but for this case IIS MUST be reset from a
> Web Page or Application with normal User rights. Power User could
> possibly be allowed, but it has to work for Users that are not
> Administrators. Cases may arise where only a standard User is available
> to perform the manual restart/reset.
>

Chris Crowe [MVP 1997 -> 2006] wrote:
> You may be able to use the IIS Process Recycling tool.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/downloads/iis5rweb.mspx
>
> Also you could write a com object (VB6) that issues the IIS reset command.
> You would then use Component Services to configure the COM Object to run
> using an Administrative account. so you end up with an ASP page that uses
> Server.CreateObject("") which will then be running with a specific
> administative account.
>
> Chris
> --
>
>
> Chris Crowe [ IIS MVP - 1997 - 2006 ]
> http://blog.crowe.co.nz
>
>
> "Neufusion" <mikeymiller@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1157574048.439416.269740@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> > Goal:
> > Allow domain users the ability to reset / restart IIS remotely without
> > Administrator rights.
> >
> > Scenario:
> > A certain server is running IIS 5.0 which needs to be restarted once in
> > a while when a ASP.NET page hangs.
> >
> > When the ASP.NET page hangs, it's worker process is maxed out, but IIS
> > is still available and serving standard ASP pages.
> >
> > An Adminstrator can restart IIS remotely via an ASP page that runs
> > IISRESET.EXE and allows normal operation to continue.
> >
> > Here is the key peice of code:
> > set wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
> > wshell.run "%COMSPEC% /C iisreset.exe >> C:\adminreset.log", 0, TRUE
> > set wshell = nothing
> >
> > A User cannot run the ASP page because IISRESET.EXE returns an error:
> > Attempting stop...
> > Restart attempt failed.
> > Access denied, you must be an administrator of the remote computer to
> > use this
> > command. Either have your account added to the administrator local
> > group of
> > the remote computer or to the domain administrator global group.
> >
> >
> >
> > Note:
> > I understand there are much better ways to handle the problematic
> > ASP.NET application/process, but for this case IIS MUST be reset from a
> > Web Page or Application with normal User rights. Power User could
> > possibly be allowed, but it has to work for Users that are not
> > Administrators. Cases may arise where only a standard User is available
> > to perform the manual restart/reset.
> >