Get all website entries in IIS using Powershell

Published on: 6th Feb 2020

Updated on: 26th Jul 2025

Overview

The best part of using Powershell is that it is capable of managing features or services in a Windows server or desktop. If you are managing the multiple IIS through the GUI, you might have slidely different configuration in the appPool and the directory. But, this issue can be avoid by using Powershell script to setup the appPool and directory in all servers.s

In this blog post, we are going to see how to use the Powershell in managing IIS.

Explanation

The baby step, get the list of the website entries in IIS.

Import-Module WebAdministration
cd IIS:\Sites
Get-ChildItem | select name

Explanation:

1. We need to import the WebAdministration PS module. This module includes all the necessary API for Powershell to interact with IIS.

2. The second line is to change the current location to the IIS Sites folder.

3. Finally, get all the items in the current location and show the name attribute of the object.

To list all websites and shows the common fields:

Import-Module WebAdministration
cd IIS:\Sites
ls

To find a website by its' name:

Import-Module WebAdministration
cd IIS:\Sites
ls | where name -like '*mywebsite*'

To view all website's fields:

Import-Module WebAdministration
cd IIS:\Sites
ls | select *

Notes

• In case you want to write shorter code for Get-ChildItem, you may use ls (i.e., the alias of Get-ChildItem).

  Import-Module WebAdministration
  cd IIS:\Sites
  ls | select name
  

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• Restart IIS appPool with Powershell
• Setting up IIS server with Powershell
• View the binding for the website in IIS with Powershell

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Author

Lau Hon Wan, software developer.