WMI to config IIS

clipped from blogs.msdn.com <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <webSettings>      <webSites>              <webSite ServerId="1234" ServerComment="My Test WebSite" PathOfDefaultVroot="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Test" >                     <siteSettings>                           <propertyList>                                  <property name="AllowKeepAlive" value="True"/>                                  <property name="ConnectionTimeout" value="90"/>                           </propertyList>                          <serverBinding Hostname="" IP="" Port="80"/>                    </siteSettings>             </webSite>      </webSites> </webSettings> Many of us use scripts to setup our web servers, a lot of the work is boilerplate - create sites, vroots.... To ease  maintanence work over the last year i've moved to a data driven approach to setting up web sites. I use an XML configuration file to describe the web site and a driver program that uses WMI to configure IIS based on the XML. Some of the benefits of this are : you only need to make fixes to the single driver program