DOS command to list all virtual directories in IIS 6

Question

I'm looking for a DOS command to list all sites and virtual directories in IIS 6 under Windows 2003. I know there are ways to do this using Powershell / WMI, VBS, C#, etc. But all I want is a quick and dirty, no-fuss way to do it from DOS, without the need to create any new files on the Webserver.

EDIT: While researching for this question I managed to come up with a one-liner that does it, but please do suggest an alternative if you have a more elegant solution that fits the criteria above.

Letdown

Answer 1

Here's what I came up with:

@FOR /F "delims=[]" %A IN ('@cscript //nologo %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs ENUM /P /w3svc') DO @FOR /F delims^=^"^ tokens^=2 %B IN ('@cscript //nologo %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs GET %A/ServerComment') DO @FOR /F delims^=^"^ tokens^=2 %C IN ('@cscript %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs //nologo GET %A/Root/Path') DO @ECHO %A %B "%C"

The command outputs a list of virtual directory ID's, along with the "friendly name" and path for each, e.g.:

/w3svc/1 Default Web Site "c:\inetpub\wwwroot"
/w3svc/1236224994 FunWidgets "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FunWidgets"
/w3svc/1359392326 JimSmith.com "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\JimSmith"
/w3svc/1835917338 BouncyToys "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bouncytoys"
/w3svc/198968327 AvalonWest "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\AvWest"

If you want to pipe the output to a text file, first make sure it doesn't exist, then append >> filename.txt to the command above. (e.g.: DEL sites.txt & ... >> sites.txt)

Here's a breakdown of how the admittedly convoluted command works:

1. @ is prefixed to every statement to avoid echoing the statement itself, which would pollute the output.

2. @FOR /F "delims=[]" %A IN ('@cscript //nologo %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs ENUM /P /w3svc') DO

   Invokes AdsUtil.vbs, which is installed with IIS6 (and reads the metabase on our behalf).

   • The ENUM /P /w3svc parameter tells it to spit out a list of all sites and virtual directory ID's starting at the root node.
   • The nologo switch suppresses the usual CScript copyright preamble, to render only the output we're interested in. A double-backslash is used to escape the slash character, since we're inside a string.

   • The output of the portion in single quotes resembles the following:

     [/w3svc/1]
     [/w3svc/1236224994]
     [/w3svc/1359392326]
     [/w3svc/1835917338]
     [/w3svc/198968327]
     [/w3svc/AppPools]
     [/w3svc/Filters]
     [/w3svc/Info]
     

   This is passed into FOR /F, which loops through each line. delims=[] tells FOR to treat square brackets as delimiters. Everything after the DO will be executed once for each line, with the %A variable set to whatever is between the square brackets. (If this was a batch file you'd use %%A instead).

3. @FOR /F delims^=^"^ tokens^=2 %B IN ('@cscript //nologo %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs //nologo GET %A/ServerComment') DO

   This second FOR block runs AdsUtil with the GET parameter to retrieve the ServerComment property for the given site / virtual directory. This is the human-friendly name as seen in IIS. Unfortunately the output is a bit trickier to parse. e.g. For /w3svc/1 you get back:

   ServerComment                   : (STRING) "Default Web Site"
   

   The careting trick parses out the text between the quotes.

   Note that nodes we aren't interested (AppPools, Filters and Info) don't have the ServerComment property, and give a result devoid of quotes, e.g.:

   The path requested could not be found.
   ErrNumber: -2147024893 (0x80070003)
   Error Trying To GET the Object (GetObject Failed): w3svc/Filters
   

   Thus the remaining portion of the command line is not invoked for them.

4. @FOR /F delims^=^"^ tokens^=2 %C IN ('@cscript %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs //nologo GET %A/Root/Path') DO @ECHO %A %B "%C"

   This final FOR retrieves the physical path, then outputs all three pieces of parsed information to the console.

Letdown

Thanks for sharing this. This isn't searching recursively for me. It only lists 'Default Web Site'. Is there a path somewhere I need to change? I'm testing this locally. – Fourteen

@jmosesman: In IIS, is the ServerComment field missing on your subnodes? If so, try it without the filter, i.e: @FOR /F "delims=[]" %A IN ('@cscript //nologo %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs ENUM /P /w3svc') DO @FOR /F delims^=^"^ tokens^=2 %C IN ('@cscript %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs //nologo GET %A/Root/Path') DO @ECHO %A "%C". If that doesn't work, try step 2 in isolation: @FOR /F "delims=[]" %A IN ('@cscript //nologo %SystemDrive%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs ENUM /P /w3svc') DO @echo %A. If still no joy, revert to non-DOS techniques I hyperlinked. – Letdown