trustedProviders Element for management [IIS Settings Schema]

Note

For more information about the trustedProviders element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Management Trusted Providers <trustedProviders>.

Configures the providers that are trusted by IIS Manager and the Management Service (WMSVC).

Syntax

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements for this section.

Attributes

Attribute

Description

allowUntrustedProviders

Optional Boolean attribute.

Specifies whether untrusted providers can run.

Caution

For security reasons, it is not recommended to change this value to true, because it will allow untrusted code to run on your server. Instead, you should always test a provider and add it to the trusted providers collection only when it is safe.

The default value is false.

Child Elements

Element

Description

add

Optional element.

Adds a provider to the collection of providers that are trusted to be run by IIS Manager and the Management Service (WMSVC).

Parent Elements

Element

Description

configuration

Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by IIS 7.

system.webServer

Specifies the top-level section group (in Administration.config) in which this element is defined.

management

Configures a Web server for remote management by using IIS Manager.

Remarks

For more information about the trustedProviders element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Management Trusted Providers <trustedProviders>.

Element Information

Configuration locations

Root Administration.config

Requirements

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0

See Also

Reference

add Element for trustedProviders for management [IIS Settings Schema]