MimeMap Metabase Property

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

The MimeMap property provides a list of the file name extensions for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) mappings. The MimeMap key at the local machine level of the metabase establishes the default list, which can be overridden at the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW service) and Web server level keys. For more information about managing this property, see the IIsMimeMap object in the IIS ADSI Provider reference section of the IIS Software Development Kit (SDK).

Attribute Name	Attribute Value
XML Data Type	MIMEMAP
WMI Data Type	MIMEMAP
ADSI Data Type	MIMEMAP
ABO Data Type	MIMEMAP
ABO Metabase Identifier	MD_MIME_MAP
Attributes	INHERIT
Default Value	null
MetaFlagsEx	CACHE_PROPERTY_MODIFIED
User Type	IIS_MD_UT_FILE
ID	6015

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	IIsComputer
/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/MimeMap	IIsMimeMap

Code Example

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