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Where is IIS on Windows Server 2012 Essentials

I just got Windows Server 2012 Essentials installed and I would like to set up my dev web projects in IIS on the server. But I can't seem to find how to get to it? When I remote to the machine with my admin account all I seem to have access to is the dashboard.

Can anyone tell me what to do?

Solution

  • Essentials comes with IIS preinstalled, so unless you uninstalled it for some reason, its there already.

    I'm assuming you want to get to the IIS 8 admin tool.
    In order to get there

    • press the start button (on your keyboard)
    • click on the Administrative Tools tile
    • From there scroll down to IIS Manager and double click

    OR

    Hold down the windows key and press the R key (win+r) then type in inetmgr