MaxConnections Metabase Property

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

The MaxConnections property specifies the maximum number of simultaneous connections to a server. The valid range is 0 to 4294967295 (unlimited). The MaxClientsMessage property can be used to send a message to clients when this value has been exceeded.

The metabase represents unlimited as the DWORD value of 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF); however, Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) represents unlimited in hexadecimal format as &HFFFFFFFF. Previous versions of IIS represented unlimited as -1.

Attribute Name Attribute Value

XML Data Type

DWORD

WMI Data Type

SINT32

ADSI Data Type

DWORD

ABO Data Type

DWORD

ABO Metabase Identifier

MD_MAX_CONNECTIONS

Attributes

INHERIT

Default Value

0

MetaFlagsEx

CACHE_PROPERTY_MODIFIED

User Type

IIS_MD_UT_SERVER

ID

1014

Configurable Locations

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

Metabase Path IIS Admin Object Type

/LM/W3SVC/n

IIsWebServer

/LM/MSFTPSVC/n

IIsFtpServer

/LM/W3SVC

IIsWebService

/LM/MSFTPSVC

IIsFtpService

/LM/NNTPSVC

IIsNntpService

/LM/NNTPSVC/n

IIsNntpServer

/LM/SMTPSVC

IIsSmtpService

/LM/SMTPSVC/n

IIsSmtpServer

Code Example

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