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Windows Server Core IIS connect to Shared Configuration - How to?

Hello, All.

I have several 2016 Server Cores running successfully.
However, when it comes to getting IIS to work with the Server Farm, that is proving to be a pain in the butt.

I am building this Core VM with every setting that is needed for it to host web sites.
Once I have this Core VM properly configured, I am going to clone it and create multiple VM Core Servers from it.

What I am needing to do, is sync the core IIS with the main IIS server.
I already added the core server to the DFS, so it has completed the sync and now has all shared files and folders on both
The wwwroot and the IIS_SharedConfig_ARR folders.

What I need to do next, is set up Shared Configuration for the core server, so it will pick up on all the sites and configuration settings of the main IIS server.

My question is this.
Since I cannot access the Shared Configuration through IIS Remotely (Which I feel is really sad that we cannot access this feature)
How can I configure the Shared Configuration on the Core IIS machine?

Yes, I have looked around Google search for the last hour, but cannot find any good resources for achieving this.

Thanks.
Wayne
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I have not figured out how to do the Shared Configuration through CORE "YET."
However, I was able to get the config files restored to the core IIS server from the IIS_SharedConfig_ARR folder.
Use xcopy to copy from the folder to the inetsrv destination.
xcopy “G:\IIS_SharedConfig_ARR\*” “C:\Windows\System32\InetSrv\Backup\ARR”

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 Now, we just restore them.
appcmd restore backup ARR

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Now connect remotely to your core IIS, and you should have all the sites listed.

However, this does not answer this topic; this is just what I had to do to get the config file loaded within IIS.
I am still hoping someone can come in with information on how to work with Shared Config, so I do not have to do this all the time I add a site or make a change.

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well heck!
I just found out that the 2016 server core, cannot do the GUI as previous versions could.
I wonder why in the he** Microsoft took this feature away?
Dang on it, Microsoft.
Thanks for messing with your customer's experience with your products.