Configure the Web Site Identification Number When a new site is created on Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0, a Web site identification number is randomly generated based on the name of the Web site. In this way, Web sites of the same name usually generate the same Web site identification for IIS 6.0 servers in a Web farm. With IIS 5.0 and earlier versions, Web site identification numbers were incremental. For example, because the default Web site is created first, its site identification number is 1, and the next site to be created is identified as 2. If you have administrative scripts that depend upon the IIS 5.0 method of generating Web site identification numbers, you can edit the registry entry IncrementalSiteIDCreation in the Windows registry to force IIS to use the incremental method of generating Web site identification numbers.
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Recommendation As a security best practice, log on to your computer using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the Run as command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. At the command prompt, type runas /user:administrative_accountname mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc. Procedures
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