Remotely manage IIS on NANO 2016 using IIS Manager

Question

Is it possible to remotely manage an IIS server, running on Server 2016 NANO using the IIS Manager 10 from the client?

I have a newly created nano VM. I've installed IIS, dotnet, IIS Administration API, and File Services on it. IIS is working from the client side. I can see the default page when I browse to the VM's IP address. I can authenticate to the IIS Administration API through the browser. I can copy files from the client machine to the server's inetpub\\wwwroot directory through Windows Explorer. Everything seems to be working but when I open IIS Manager 10 on my client machine and try to connect it to the nano server, I get an error message that says "Could not connect to the specified computer. Details: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized."

I've already followed the instructions at https://blogs.iis.net/adminapi/microsoft-iis-administration-on-nano-server That's how I've gotten as far as I have but now I'm just stuck and can't seem to find any path forward.

EDIT: BTW, I am able to connect to the site and administer it with http://manage.iis.net/

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, it's not possible.

You can see what's available with dism /online /get-feature , but IIS-WebServerManagementTools is not in that list.