IIS7 - Setup

Re: Using InstallShield to create Virtual Directory on IIS7 Vista

ckeen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:17 GMT

Hi Satish,

The two articles my reply links to were sufficient to resolve the problem for me. I'm sorry, but I can't be of much help on this one. For one thing, I'm still working with InstallShield 2008 Express. For another, I don't recall anything about the Property Manager, and I don't see any settings in my project similar to the "IISPREFERLEGACYOBJECTS = 1" referred to apriltioe.

I can't remember off the top of my head how to create the failure log. It involved a command line switch, perhaps "/f." I learned how to do it reading the InstallShield forums. I think the search terms I used were "failure log."

Re: Using InstallShield to create Virtual Directory on IIS7 Vista

KSathish — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:51:02 GMT

Hi Ckeen,

Where can i find property manager to set above property in Install Shield 2009 Premier edition?

Install Shield 2009 Premier edition creates virtual directory properly in XP but not Vista - where can i find the log for failure?

Or is it enough the replace of only DLL which you mention?

Regards

Sathish

Re: Using InstallShield to create Virtual Directory on IIS7 Vista

ckeen — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:33:38 GMT

For those who may be interested, this issue has been resolved.

"apriltioe," who started this thread, replied: "Sorry for the late reply as I'm unable to access external emails a work. Yes, I've managed to solve the problem. What you need to do is to add the following property in Property Manager - IISPREFERLEGACYOBJECTS = 1. Let me know if it works for you."

As luck would have it, I received a reply a few hours earlier from a duplicate request I'd posted to an InstallShield users forum. There's an InstallShield KnowledgeBase article with a download link for a patch to correct this.

The forum thread is here: http://community.acresso.com/showthread.php?p=427348&posted=1#post427348

The KnowledgeBase article is here: http://kb.acresso.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=Q200236&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_HOTFIX_1_1&dialogID=33750559&stateId=0%200%2033746781

Re: Using InstallShield to create Virtual Directory on IIS7 Vista

ckeen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:32:33 GMT

Have you had any success figuring this out? I'm in the same boat: My InstallShield 2008 setup.exe fails to create the virtual directory in Vista with IIS 7. It rollsback from the attempt, and ends with "The wizard was interrupted before [my app name] could be completely installed. ..." I've enabled all the IIS 6 Metabase options available to no avail. I've also tried running it with elevated privileges. The setup.exe works flawlessly in XP.

Re: Using InstallShield to create Virtual Directory on IIS7 Vista

Zhao Ji Ma - MSFT — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:17:34 GMT

Hi,

IIS 7.0 has Metabase Compatibility component which could be used for legacy application.

The Metabase Compatibility component feature could be toggled from Internet Information Services in Turn Windows features on or off.

Using InstallShield to create Virtual Directory on IIS7 Vista

apriltioe — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:31:31 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to create a virtual directory in IIS 7 on a Vista machine using InstallShield 2008. Has anyone done this before? It works fine on a Windows XP machine, but not on a Vista machine.

Thanks.