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• 10-08-2008, 12:04 AM

  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 8:54 PM MI Posts 3,890

  Behind the firewall installer? Reply Contact First off, this is a great start for helping centralize installs of the various 'web' products, both developer and IIS related.   Few observations. 1) this worked good at my house although .NET 3.5 sp1 wasn't installed and rebooted during the install of everything, I'm not sure if stuff actually finished.  It was like the 3rd or 4th item that installed.  2) What about offering this type of thing, 'behind the firewall'.  When we stage IIS servers, we want to automate deployment of certain modules, components etc.  If we could use this and have the source local to the network vs. having the need to go out to the web to grab files.  I guess having them on the web is 'in the cloud' computing, but I can see making the source either on the web or local.  Other products like WSUS, service packs allow for offline install support. 3) When deploying certain updates, allow us to 'resume' after necessary reboots like .NET 3.5 sp1.  I'm not sure this will ever be 100%, but for stand-alone installs, this tool fits perfectly.  If you want me to post the install log from my local machine, let me know. Keep up the great work, hope this helps. Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 10-08-2008, 9:39 AM

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  choyer Joined on 01-29-2008, 2:02 AM Posts 127

  Re: Behind the firewall installer? Reply Contact This is great feedback, thanks! Technically, we should be resuming the install after the reboot of .NET 3.5 SP1, could you post the install log and computer specs (OS version, x86 or x64) and we will investigate?  Do you remember what else you were installing? For the "behind the firewall", that's an interesting idea and I've got it on my list to consider in the future.  Do you see ever wanting to have some source local and some out to the web or would it be either all local or all web?  Crystal Web Platform Installer Program Manager IIS Program Manager

• 10-08-2008, 12:29 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 8:54 PM MI Posts 3,890

  Re: Behind the firewall installer? Reply Contact I think I selected everything.  Do you have a log file I should post, I have no problem posting that.  Tell me where and I can make it accessible to you either online or offline.  Contact me at steve@iislogs.com if you want to contact me directly. Behind the firewall.  I would say either or.  Web or local, but I can see a blend option would be nice.  If we could pull certain things "from the cloud" so to speak, that would help.  I've worked both at an ISP and enterprise environments, the enterprise (large) tend to keep things structured and local to their environment.  An ISP (well the one I worked at) would tend to pull from either source, web or local.  It depended on the product and how we were installing.  Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget