The following steps occur when deleting a Web site with the DeleteCustomerWebSite method of the Managed Web Hosting Namespace:

1. Delete the Web site from the IIS metabase.
2. Archive the contents and log files of the Web site to <archiveShare> if specified.
3. Delete the Web site content, log files, and directory structure.
4. Delete the auto-generated users (anon and unc).
5. Delete the Web site pointer.

The DeleteCustomerWebSite method has the following security requirements:

• The caller is impersonated.
• The caller is tested for OrgCreator permissions by checking for membership in any of the following groups:
  • Domain Admins
  • Hosting Admins
  • Reseller Admins

The following is an example of an XML request for the DeleteCustomerWebSite method of the Managed Web Hosting Namespace:

<request>
		<procedure>
				<execute namespace="Managed Web Hosting" 
				procedure="DeleteCustomerWebSite" impersonate="1">
						<executeData>
						<preferredDomainController>AD01.fabrikam.com
						</preferredDomainController>
						<org>LDAP://OU=alpineskihouse,OU=consolidatedmessenger,
						OU=Hosting,DC=fabrikam,DC=Com</org>
						<webSiteName>www.alpineskihouse.com</webSiteName>
						</executeData>
						<after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge" />
				</execute>
		</procedure>
</request>

No example XML response.

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