RDP User Cannot Access IIS Server

Hi @Arjun Goel (DevOn),

By default the remote IIS management is disabled, and if you try to add a remote server with the running IIS to the IIS Management Console (Connect to a Server menu) on another server, the following error message appears:

Could not connect to the specified computer . Details: Unable to connect to the remote server

The matter is that IIS Management Service is not being installed during the IIS installation . You can install the Management Service component from the Server Manager console. Then restart the IIS web service.

The next step is to allow remote connections in the IIS web server settings. To do it, open Management Service item in the Management section of IIS Manager.

Check the “Enable remote connections” option in Management Service section.

Here you can restrict connections to the IIS Management Console by IP address. To do it, deny connections for unspecified clients (Access for unspecified clients: Deny) and specify IP address/ IP subnets for which the connections are allowed. The remote connection service uses an SSL certificate, but you can use another one if you imported it into the server’s certificate store (you can create and use a self-signed SSL certificate). Save the changes.

After that, a remote IIS web server can be added to the IIS Manager console and you can manage the IIS server, multiple sites on it the same way as the local web server.

By default, only users with administrator privileges have the permission to remotely manage the IIS server. In order to grant the permission to IIS remote management for standard users, it is necessary to grant the corresponding permissions at the level of each IIS website. Select a site and find the IIS Manager Permissions option.

In the Actions panel, click on Allow User. Select the user account to which you want to grant access to IIS and click OK.

User permissions to manage sites on IIS server are configured in the Feature Delegation section at the IIS server level. You can select one of three user access levels for each IIS server management functional: Read Only, Read/Write or Not Delegated.

For more details, please refer to this official Microsoft document:

https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/iis/manage/remote-administration/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-delegation-in-iis-7

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Best regards,

Yurong Dai