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# Overview of Programmatic Administration

Programmatic administration allows developers and administrators to automate access to IIS configuration parameter values stored in the metabase.

This section contains:

- Overview of Programmatic Administration: Introductory description of programmatic administration.
- Using the WMI Interface: Explains how to use Windows Management Instrumenation (WMI) to query and manipulate the IIS metabase.
- Using IIS Admin Objects: Explains how to use Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) to manipulate the metabase.
- Development Choices for Programmatic Administration: Reference pages for WMI and ADSI.

This section does not contain information on:

- Metabase concepts: Metabase: Describes the IIS metabase.

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