Jim Klopfenstein has a post on using the .NET System.Management classes to start an IIS server remotely. It's a good example on using these classes. I've been playing in System.Management lately, building custom NAnt tasks to tweak IIS settings. Jim's example uses the ManagementScope class and ManagementObjectSearcher to discover the server instance he wants to work with. This is actually much more intelligent than the method I use, probably because Jim read the SDK docs :-) Intellisense can be a real impediment to true knowlege.