[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change]

### EnableHistory

Setting this property to TRUE enables metabase history. Setting the MaxHistoryFiles property to 0 (zero) also effectively disables metabase history. For more information, see The Metabase History Feature.

Important If this property is set to false when EnableEditWhileRunning is set to TRUE, then IIS will write a warning to the event log and re-set this property to TRUE.

Attribute Name | Attribute Value
Data Type | DWORD
Attributes | NO_ATTRIBUTES
Default Value | null
MetaFlagsEx |
User Type | IIS_MD_UT_SERVER
StartingNumber |
EndingNumber |
ID | 9996

### Access Locations

This property is accessible at the following locations:

Metabase Path | IIS Admin Object Type

### IIS Admin Base Object Information

The following table lists additional information required only for code that uses the IIS Admin Base Object.

Metabase identifier | MD_ROOT_ENABLE_HISTORY
Data type | DWORD
User type | IIS_MD_UT_SERVER

Related Topics

MaxHistoryFiles
EnableEditWhileRunning

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