Change the Home Directory of an IIS 6 website using Powershell 2 and WMI August 3, 2010

This function will set the home directory of an IIS 6 website using Powershell 2 (it will not work with v1).

You need to pass it the site description (from the Web Site tab in IIS), the new path and the server your website is running on (this can be a machine name or an IP address).

You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to get this working.

Function SetHomeDirectory($SiteDescription, $NewPath, $serverName)
{
 $query = "ServerComment = '" + $SiteDescription + "'"
 $webserver = Get-WMIObject -class IIsWebServerSetting -namespace "root\microsoftiisv2" -Filter $query -computer $serverName -authentication 6
 $nameQuery = "Name = '" + $webserver.Name + "/root'"
 $webdir = Get-WMIObject -class IIsWebVirtualDirSetting -namespace "root\microsoftiisv2" -Filter $nameQuery -computer $serverName -authentication 6
 $webdir.Path = $NewPath
 Set-WmiInstance -InputObject $webdir
}
SetHomeDirectory "mysite.co.uk" "d:\websites\mysite" "myServer"

Fix the problem where Windows explorer opens a new window for every folder you click on rather than just opening it in existing window February 18, 2010

click Start > Run… and paste this command: regsvr32 /i shell32.dll