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Anton Gogolev
Asked: 2020-07-01 08:50:42 +0800 CST

Creating IIS SMTP Virtual Server with adsutil.vbs

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Yes, it's all ancient. Yes, not supported. Welp...

What would be the correct way to create an IIS SMTP Virtual Server using command-line tools so that the whole endeavor could be scripted and DevOpsed away in a Git repository?

Here are my unsuccessful attempts thus far (as Administrator, of course):

adsutil create smtpsvc
adsutil create smtpsvc/2
adsutil create smtpsvc/2/root
adsutil create smtpsvc "IisSmtpServer"
adsutil create smtpsvc/2 "IisSmtpServer"
adsutil create smtpsvc/2/root "IisSmtpServer"

and all the variations thereof. All of them failed with one error or another.

Oh, the places I've been to while Googling for answers... But alas, nothing really helped me even create the SMTP Virtual Server.

windows iis

1 Answers

  1. There is no simple command line to create SMTP services. If I would be tasked eith this, I would start with PowerShell like this:

    Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature SMTP-Server,Web-Mgmt-Console,WEB-WMI

    Then start using WMI:

    $virtualSMTPServer = Get-WmiObject IISSmtpServerSetting -namespace “ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2” | Where-Object { $_.name -like “`"SmtpSVC/1" }
$virtualSMTPServer.FullyQualifiedDomainName = "mail.example.com"

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