Creating Web Applications in IIS using PowerShell

I am a big fan of PowerShell and have been looking for ways to script out common IIS Administration tasks using PowerShell and there have been a number of methods provided in the past that made it reasonably difficult to create Web Applications in IIS using PowerShell.

However, I came across an article recently that makes this task a piece of cake!  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh867877(v=wps.630).aspx

This resulted in me creating the following PowerShell script:



This worked like a charm! Now I can easily automate nearly any IIS Administration task! Woo hoo!