{"id":2204,"date":"2009-03-22T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2204.html"},"modified":"2009-03-22T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:06:17","slug":"connect-to-a-server-option-in-iis-manager-is-not-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2009\/03\/22\/connect-to-a-server-option-in-iis-manager-is-not-available\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Connect to a server&#8221; option in IIS Manager is not available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running Vista, and are wondering why you can&#8217;t use IIS Manager to connect to any remote servers, sites, or applications&#8230;<em>you&#8217;re running the wrong version<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the <em>wrong<\/em> version looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2009\/03\/iis_manager.png\" alt=\"The wrong version of IIS Manager in Windows Vista\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You need to grab the &#8220;IIS Manager for Remote Administration&#8221; instead, as shown in the picture below.  It has an active toolbar in the connections panel, and extra menu options.  It allows you to administer IIS sites and applications on remote machines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2009\/03\/iis_manager_new.png\" alt=\"The right version of IIS Manager in Windows Vista: IIS Manager for remote administration\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Download links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32-bit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.net\/downloads\/default.aspx?tabid=34&#038;g=6&#038;i=1626\">IIS 7.0 Manager for Remote Administration (x86)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>64-bit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.net\/downloads\/default.aspx?tabid=34&#038;i=1633&#038;g=6\">IIS 7.0 Manager for Remote Administration (x64)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It took me ages to figure this out \u2014 I thought there must be some option, service, or permission I was missing that would allow me to connect to remote sites.  But no, you need a completely different version of the damn tool.  Vista <em>Ultimate<\/em>, my ass.  I hope this makes the answer a bit easier to find for the next person who is stumped by the same issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running Vista, and are wondering why you can&#8217;t use IIS Manager to connect to any remote servers, sites, or applications&#8230;you&#8217;re running the wrong version. Here&#8217;s what the wrong version looks like: You need to grab the &#8220;IIS Manager for Remote Administration&#8221; instead, as shown in the picture below. It has an active &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2009\/03\/22\/connect-to-a-server-option-in-iis-manager-is-not-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Connect to a server&#8221; option in IIS Manager is not available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1633,1634,1635,1217,1636,1637,1638,1639,1220],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie","tag-application","tag-iis","tag-management","tag-remote","tag-server","tag-site","tag-tool","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}