Programmatically Setting IIS Log Fields

IIS 6.0

VBScript:

Set IIsWebServerObj = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC")

For Each Object In IIsWebServerObj

    If (Object.Class = "IIsWebServer") Then 

        WScript.Echo "Updating: " & Object.ServerComment

Set IIsWebSiteObj = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC/" & Object.Name)

        IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileDate", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileTime", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileClientIp", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileUserName", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileSiteName", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileComputerName", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileServerIp", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileMethod", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileUriStem", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileUriQuery", False
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileHttpStatus", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileWin32Status", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileBytesSent", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileBytesRecv", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileTimeTaken", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileServerPort", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileUserAgent", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileCookie", False
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileReferer", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileProtocolVersion", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileHttpSubStatus", True
IIsWebSiteObj.Put "LogExtFileHost", True
IIsWebSiteObj.SetInfo

    End If
Next

IIS 7.0 or Later

PowerShell 2.0:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Web.Administration")

$mgr = New-Object Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager    

foreach($site in $mgr.Sites)
{
$site.ChildElements["logFile"].Attributes["logExtFileFlags"].Value = `
"BytesRecv,BytesSent,ClientIP,ComputerName,Cookie,Date,Host,HttpStatus," + `
"HttpSubStatus,Method,ProtocolVersion,Referer,ServerIP,ServerPort,SiteName," + `
"Time,TimeTaken,UriQuery,UriStem,UserAgent,UserName,Win32Status"
}
$mgr.CommitChanges()

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2015
  Thanks! it works. Do you know why $site.ChildElements["logFile"].Attributes["logExtFileFlags"].Value gives integer value?