LogonMethod Metabase Property

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

The LogonMethod property contains an integer that specifies the logon method for cleartext logons. Valid settings are:

• 0 for interactive logon (defined in iiscnfg.h as MD_LOGON_INTERACTIVE).

• 1 for batch logon (defined in iiscnfg.h as MD_LOGON_BATCH).

• 2 for network logon (defined in iiscnfg.h as MD_LOGON_NETWORK).

• 3 for cleartext logon (defined in iiscnfg.h as MD_LOGON_NETWORK_CLEARTEXT).

For more information about logon methods, see UNC Authentication in IIS 6.0.

Attribute Name	Attribute Value
XML Data Type	DWORD
WMI Data Type	SINT32
ADSI Data Type	DWORD
ABO Data Type	DWORD
ABO Metabase Identifier	MD_LOGON_METHOD
Attributes	INHERIT
Default Value	3
MetaFlagsEx	CACHE_PROPERTY_MODIFIED
User Type	IIS_MD_UT_FILE
ID	6013

Configurable Locations

You can configure this property at the following locations in the IIS metabase.

Metabase Path	IIS Admin Object Type
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT /LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/virtual_directory_name	IIsWebVirtualDir
/LM/W3SVC/n	IIsWebServer
/LM/W3SVC	IIsWebService
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/file_name /LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/virtual_directory_name/file_name	IIsWebFile
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/physical_directory_name /LM/W3SVC/n/virtual_directory_name/physical_directory_name	IIsWebDirectory
/LM/W3SVC/AppPools/DefaultAppPool /LM/W3SVC/AppPools/DefaultAppPool/application_pool_name	IIsApplicationPool
/LM/W3SVC/AppPools	IIsApplicationPools

Code Example

For general code examples, see Code Examples to Configure Metabase Properties.