Microsoft Windows Server
APIs and integration points for Microsoft Windows Server operating system including management, networking, storage, virtualization, security, and remote administration capabilities for enterprise server infrastructure.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Microsoft Windows Server the way a machine reads it — 164 machine-readable artifacts across 18 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Microsoft Windows Server scores 60.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Microsoft Windows Server
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Windows Server. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 18
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Windows Server Management API
PowerShell and WMI-based management APIs for Windows Server administration.
Windows Remote Management (WinRM)
WS-Management protocol implementation for remote management of Windows servers using SOAP-based web services for configuration and operations.
Active Directory Domain Services API
LDAP and REST APIs for Active Directory management and authentication.
Hyper-V Management API
APIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual storage.
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) API
APIs for managing Windows updates across enterprise environments.
Windows Admin Center API
Modern web-based management interface REST API for Windows Server that provides a gateway service for relaying commands and scripts to managed nodes.
DNS Server Management API
APIs for managing Windows DNS Server services.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) API
Infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems providing COM, scripting, and .NET APIs for system administration and monitoring.
Remote Desktop Services API
Win32 API for managing Remote Desktop Services including session management, virtual channels, user configuration, and the Remote Desktop Protocol.
Failover Clustering API
APIs for defining and managing software and hardware components on failover clusters to increase application scalability and availability.
DHCP Server Management API
APIs and PowerShell cmdlets for managing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server services including leases, reservations, and scopes.
SMB File Server API
Server Message Block protocol APIs and WMI management classes for managing file shares, share access, and network file sharing across Windows Server environments.
Windows Event Log API
API for instrumenting, querying, and consuming event logs on Windows Server for diagnostics, monitoring, and auditing.
Storage Spaces Direct API
APIs and PowerShell management for software-defined storage enabling clustering of servers with internal storage for hyper-converged infrastructure.
Network Policy Server (NPS) RADIUS API
Network Policy Server providing centralized RADIUS authentication, authorization, and accounting for wireless, VPN, and dial-up connections.
Microsoft Windows Server Application Pools API
Application pools provide an isolation mechanism for processes on the web server. There are many different settings available to fine-tune the behavior of the worker processes u...
Microsoft Windows Server Applications API
Applications provide a method to differentiate sections of a web site. An application belongs to a single web site and will handle requests for the web site at the application p...
Microsoft Windows Server Web Sites API
Web sites are a core entity of IIS that determine where and how requests will be handled. The web site API allows consumers to create, read, delete, or update their web sites.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
IIS Administration API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Microsoft Windows Server Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Web Server Management
REST API for managing IIS web sites, applications, and application pools with full CRUD operations and configuration management.
Active Directory Services
LDAP and API-based management of directory services, user authentication, group policies, and domain controllers.
Hyper-V Virtualization
Create, manage, and monitor virtual machines, virtual switches, and storage with PowerShell and WMI APIs.
Remote Server Administration
Manage servers remotely through WinRM, PowerShell Remoting, Windows Admin Center, and Remote Desktop Services.
Failover Clustering
High availability clustering with automatic failover for critical workloads including SQL Server, Hyper-V, and file servers.
Software-Defined Storage
Storage Spaces Direct for hyper-converged infrastructure with pool management, tiering, and resilient storage volumes.
DNS and DHCP Services
Network infrastructure services with APIs for DNS zone management and DHCP scope configuration.
Security and Compliance
RADIUS authentication via NPS, TLS/SSL management, Windows Event Log auditing, and security policy enforcement.
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Semantic Vocabularies 2
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Iis Administration Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Microsoft Windows Server API Rules
SPECTRALMicrosoft Windows Server API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 61
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ApplicationCreate
JSON SCHEMAApplicationLinks
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolCreate
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolLinks
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolReference
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPool
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolSummary
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolUpdate
JSON SCHEMAApplication
JSON SCHEMAApplicationSummary
JSON SCHEMAApplicationUpdate
JSON SCHEMABinding
JSON SCHEMACertificate
JSON SCHEMACpuSettings
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAHalLink
JSON SCHEMAIdentity
JSON SCHEMAPeriodicRestart
JSON SCHEMAProcessModel
JSON SCHEMAProcessOrphaning
JSON SCHEMARapidFailProtection
JSON SCHEMARecyclingLogEvents
JSON SCHEMARecycling
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteCreate
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteLimits
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteLinks
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteReference
JSON SCHEMAWebSite
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteSummary
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteUpdate
JSON SCHEMAApplication
JSON SCHEMAApplicationCreate
JSON SCHEMAApplicationLinks
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPool
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolCreate
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolLinks
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolReference
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolSummary
JSON SCHEMAApplicationPoolUpdate
JSON SCHEMAApplicationSummary
JSON SCHEMAApplicationUpdate
JSON SCHEMABinding
JSON SCHEMACertificate
JSON SCHEMACpuSettings
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAHalLink
JSON SCHEMAIdentity
JSON SCHEMAPeriodicRestart
JSON SCHEMAProcessModel
JSON SCHEMAProcessOrphaning
JSON SCHEMARapidFailProtection
JSON SCHEMARecycling
JSON SCHEMARecyclingLogEvents
JSON SCHEMAIIS Web Site
JSON SCHEMAWebSite
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteCreate
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteLimits
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteLinks
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteReference
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteSummary
JSON SCHEMAWebSiteUpdate
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JSON Structure 31
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Iis Administration Application Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Links Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Pool Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Pool Links Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Pool Reference Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Pool Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Pool Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Pool Update Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Application Update Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Binding Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Certificate Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Cpu Settings Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Hal Link Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Identity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Periodic Restart Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Process Model Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Process Orphaning Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Rapid Fail Protection Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Recycling Log Events Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Recycling Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Limits Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Links Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Reference Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREIis Administration Web Site Update Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Windows Server Structure
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Examples 30
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Enterprise Web Hosting
Deploy and manage web applications on IIS with automated site provisioning, SSL certificate management, and application pool isolation.
Infrastructure Automation
Automate server provisioning, configuration management, and patch deployment using PowerShell, WMI, and REST APIs.
Hybrid Cloud Management
Manage on-premises Windows Server infrastructure alongside Azure resources through Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Deploy and manage Remote Desktop Services for virtual desktop and application delivery to remote workers.
High Availability Deployments
Configure failover clustering and storage replication for mission-critical applications requiring zero downtime.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Microsoft Windows Server — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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