I have been crawling all over this problem for a week now. Followed all of the instructions found on the net, both Programs and Features and through the cmd prompt, elevated permissions, run the Windows Update System Readiness Tool (KB947821), yada, yada, yada. Ad nauseum. Based on search engine hits...

Hi Andrew As I said before, I and thousands like me don't get installation media any more as our machines come pre-installed with Windows. Fortunately, when reading the documentation for Visual Web Developer (sorry, I should have done this first), I find you don't need IIS to test web pages on...

Installs great, but cannot create a database. I'm using Web Platform Installer that pops up after clicking "Install application from gallery..". I'm not sure what else to add, except it "fails to create the database". Windows 7: Build 7100 2.93ghz Intel Celeron 2gb ram IIS...

Hi Andrew Thanks for your quick reply. I've installed IE8 and now the Web Installer Platform runs OK. Problem 2 is now its asking for files from the XP SP2 disc, which I've installed to a directory on my machine. Everything goes OK until we get to the file admxprox.dll which I can't find...

Hi to all. I need to set my custom error pages for 401, 404, 403, 500 in IIS 5.x. For 404 error I can set URL to the appropriate error page, but for others I can set only File or Default. How can I set my custom aspx error pages for errors?

I had new vista home basic laptop...i need tp install iis 7.0 but i dono how to do it also then only i can locally web share my .net application for acessing it in localhoat can anyone pls help me??

Hi all. I've been handed support of a physical box we have that we're trying to install IIS on. It may possibly have been installed previously and may have been removed. Basically what we're after is to install IIS 7.0 and UDDI services. There are no roles or features installed at the moment...

Hi I've been searching through the forums and came across many posts similar to the problem I am experiencing but none of the suggestions have got me any closer to getting this fixed. I'm far from an IIS expert so am begging for some help on this. We have a somewhat relatively clean install of...

I found that the issue is not with IIS7, but with Vista UAC controls. You need to run the install msi file with elevated privilages from the start, but as there is no 'run as administrator' on the msi right-click menu, you need to create a batch file for it. Something along the lines of: C:\Windows...

When I try to install IIS on my Windows XP Pro, which has been updated to Service Pack 3 using update.microsoft.com, it says "Installation program cannot copy staxmem.dll. Please check the the location specified below is correct, or edit it and insert "Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3...