Microsoft.Web.Administration Get a unique persitent key per site?

Question

User402016585 posted

I am developing a small util that iterates the sites in IIS using Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager and store basic info about the site, bindings, virtual apps and so on in database tables and this works fine. I also have tables for Customer info, "platform versions/info/service" and so on, these tables use the Web.Administration Site.Id as relation/join key.

The problem is that if sites are deleted in IIS the Site.Id will be "reused" for next added site in IIS, if I have site id 1,2,3 and delete site 2 and then add a new site the new site will get Site.Id=2 which I find strange.  This mess my relation between Site and Customer so I can not use Site.Id, same goes for Site.Name (if name modified in IIS).

Is there a way of getting like a persistent unique guid-like key per site, that is not re-used?

Cheers!

Answer 1

User-460007017 posted

Hi AndersSmedman,

According to this reference:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.web.administration.site.id(v=vs.90).aspx, it is able to grant unique identity for site with hash-based identity.

Please take the following steps:

1.open Run->regedit

2.navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetMgr\Parameters\IncrementalSiteIDCreation

3. set the DWORD to other than 1.

4.Close the registry editor

Once the registry dword is set, then the website will be granted unique hash-based identity. If the dword is set to 1, then IIS will use legacy identity mode and grant new site with missing ID.

Best Regards,

Yuk Ding

Answer 2

User402016585 posted

Hi!

Thanks, so thats the only way, strange. Then I know and thank you for your feedback.

/Anders