Seems that I forgot to set the pathftproot and pathwwwroot locations in the script.I updated the script and you should be able to download the updated version from my blog (http://blogs.iis.net/thomad).
The installpath is not changed. It's just the content that can be moved off the system partition.
Hope this helps.
MoveIISRoot
Thomas Deml
Group Program Manager
Internet Information Services
Microsoft Corp.
Another here who is sufficiently astonished/annoyed by this to sign up to this site!
I cannot believe that the post on this forum was the first/only time Microsoft heard of this requirement. Every client I've worked with over the past 5 years installed IIS on a non-OS drive, it's just standard practice, you must know this?
I'm deploying IIS7 for the first time at the moment. Using a script found on a forum is not going to cut it for my client... I'd say this is an absolutely 100% essential requirement for MS to fix pronto.
Mmm... we need to be more specific here. the non-IIS binaries can be customize during setup (unattended/scripting/etc), however the core binaries/config are in %systemdrive%. and yes - during manual setup - IIS should prompt for the default website/log/etc
location, it would benefits a lot of users, me included, coz for now - we do custom package for IIS and deploy website/log/etc to non-OS drive.
This is most likely an "uncommon feature request", due to this ability always being there. I, like 1000's of other dev's and admins, prefer to put our data directories on another partition. I've been doing this with IIS installs since 1999. Even a program as
complex as SQL server 2008 allows you to specify another partition/location for a data directory during the install process. How can this not be a simple screen with 2 radio buttons? (Like a: default inetpub location / b: specify inetpub location).
While creating the developer VM we intend to use for our next gen, i found this shortcoming. I cannot believe how hard it is to move the inetpub location now. In IIS 6, this was right click, edit, ok..
I just wanted to add my voice as another person that would love there to be a built in option which allows you to choose which drive to install to. With IIS 6 this was incredibly easy by performing an unattended install. My company like many others has audit
requirements which forbid us from placing web content on the system drive. Initially I was running the moveIIS7root script on our servers, but I have since stopped using it due to fears that we would run into issues down the line with 3rd party apps. I'm not
even asking for a UI option that allows you to choose a drive. If there was a way to script the install to a different drive like we could with IIS 6 then I think it would make everyone happy.
The current IIS 7 unattended config file not really support this yet. It covers only what components need to be install. So i'm afraid after the unattended install, you still to run the custom script like discussed in this thread to do post migration configuration.
would be nice to have this feature add in.
We're having the same isse with the VSS system writers, this time with the latest version of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client, on windows 2008 servers where the inetpub folder under IIS has been moved from the C: drive.
09/07/2010 23:59:46 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs': not found.
09/07/2010 23:59:46 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:01 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\custerr\en-us\500-100.asp': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:01 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\custerr\en-us\500-100.asp': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:13 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\0409\adsutil.ini': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:13 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\0409\adsutil.ini': not found.
In our case, an earlier version of this backup client would fail to back up at all if the C:\inetpub and a few subfolders/files didn't exist. So we have servers with no backups.
I've been searching for hours for the method to update the VSS writers.
Can someone in a support capacity at Microsoft address this? It's a big, big problem.
Just want to add another voice to this issue. The lack of support for installing to different drives is disconcerting. I moved everything to a new server so that I could take advantage of IIS 7 features, but this basic failing bars me from exploring any of
its purported improvements.
thomad
552 Posts
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Oct 23, 2009 05:44 PM|LINK
ckts,
Seems that I forgot to set the pathftproot and pathwwwroot locations in the script.I updated the script and you should be able to download the updated version from my blog (http://blogs.iis.net/thomad).
The installpath is not changed. It's just the content that can be moved off the system partition.
Hope this helps.
MoveIISRoot
Group Program Manager
Internet Information Services
Microsoft Corp.
cfizz34
2 Posts
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Feb 16, 2010 09:03 PM|LINK
Is the scipt you supply on your blog both parts of the IIS7 move - all the settings and the copy of the data?
qbernard
5016 Posts
MVP
Moderator
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Feb 22, 2010 03:58 AM|LINK
If you are referring to this -
http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2008/02/10/moving-the-iis7-inetpub-directory-to-a-different-drive.aspx
the script ONLY move your inetpub to diff drive and set the config in registry and config file to the new location.
Bernard Cheah
antpoole
1 Post
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Mar 19, 2010 12:14 PM|LINK
Another here who is sufficiently astonished/annoyed by this to sign up to this site!
I cannot believe that the post on this forum was the first/only time Microsoft heard of this requirement. Every client I've worked with over the past 5 years installed IIS on a non-OS drive, it's just standard practice, you must know this?
I'm deploying IIS7 for the first time at the moment. Using a script found on a forum is not going to cut it for my client... I'd say this is an absolutely 100% essential requirement for MS to fix pronto.
qbernard
5016 Posts
MVP
Moderator
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Mar 23, 2010 10:13 AM|LINK
Bernard Cheah
jtiger12
4 Posts
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
May 19, 2010 07:58 PM|LINK
While creating the developer VM we intend to use for our next gen, i found this shortcoming. I cannot believe how hard it is to move the inetpub location now. In IIS 6, this was right click, edit, ok..
Tharriso
38 Posts
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Jul 13, 2010 09:11 PM|LINK
qbernard
5016 Posts
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Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location
Jul 15, 2010 08:34 AM|LINK
Bernard Cheah
HMK99
2 Posts
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location- VSS Writer issue!!!
Sep 08, 2010 10:10 PM|LINK
We're having the same isse with the VSS system writers, this time with the latest version of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client, on windows 2008 servers where the inetpub folder under IIS has been moved from the C: drive.
09/07/2010 23:59:46 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs': not found.
09/07/2010 23:59:46 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:01 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\custerr\en-us\500-100.asp': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:01 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\custerr\en-us\500-100.asp': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:13 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\0409\adsutil.ini': not found.
09/08/2010 00:00:13 ANS4251W System Writer's file '\\arided\c$\inetpub\adminscripts\0409\adsutil.ini': not found.
In our case, an earlier version of this backup client would fail to back up at all if the C:\inetpub and a few subfolders/files didn't exist. So we have servers with no backups.
I've been searching for hours for the method to update the VSS writers.
Can someone in a support capacity at Microsoft address this? It's a big, big problem.
wgla
1 Post
Re: IIS 7: InetPub Location- VSS Writer issue!!!
Sep 11, 2010 05:44 PM|LINK