What's new with TP2?

• IIS7 Powershell provider now supports SSL (installing and acquiring a certificate, creating an ssl site binding)
• Tech Preview 2 ships with 40 new cmdlets. All of these cmdlets are for day-to-day IIS tasks like creating web-sites, web-applications, enabled request tracing, adding a handler or a module.The complete list is at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/492/using-the-task-based-cmdlets
• We fixed number of bugs and significantly improved performance of internal query engine.

The IIS7 PowerShell Provider offers

• Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools
• Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications and Virtual Directories
• Add and Change Complex Configuration Settings
• Query Run-time Data (Web-Site State, Application Pool State, Currently Executing Requests)
• Execute Advanced Configuration Tasks, Scripting, Integration with other PowerShell Snap-Ins and features
• Search and Discover Configuration Settings

DOWNLOAD: Tech Preview 1 of the IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider x86 | x64

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