June 24, 2006 on 6:40 am | In Windows Vista | No Comments
One of the nice things that Microsoft provided with this beta 2 of Vista is pretty much all the bells and whistles. IIS 7.0 beta is one of those bells.
Turning this service on is not really all that difficult. Select the start menu, Control Panel, Programs, select Turn on or off Windows features. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be presented with a listbox where you can select IIS and the desired components.
The problem here is that the WAS (Windows Activation Service) was already installed and IIS depends on that service, otherwise it will fail to run. Normally this is not a problem, but you can install and uninstall IIS until the cows come home and WAS is just not anywhere to be found in the Services management console. This is after a fresh install of the operating system as well and Windows indicated that WAS was indeed installed (all options checked).
The solution to this is to remove BOTH WAS and IIS (expected reboot required and kindly prompted for) and reinstall both at the same time after the reboot.
Suddenly IIS services start as they should and you can continue on to the new IIS 7 management console.
June 24, 2006 on 6:33 am | In Windows Vista | No Comments
Okay, after 5-10 minutes of screwing around with trying to get a Microsoft product (Atlas) installed in Windows Vista beta 2 with zero success due to the new user protection, I started to pull out what little hair I had left.
In a nutshell, a user (even if they’re in the Administrators group) is not allowed to install MSI files (completely). You’ll usually get 98% of the way done, then WHAM! unable to access some file (usually install state) followed by the wonderful installation rollback.
The fix to this however, is to create a batch or command file that calls the MSI in question. For example:
atlas.bat:
atlassetup.msi
Once you have done that, you can then right click on the batch or command file and select ‘Run as Administrator’ and you’ll be right as rain! I hope this helps someone else out because it was starting to do my head in.
January 27, 2006 on 8:44 am | In Windows Vista | No Comments
Ran into the MSI installation issue with Vista yet again when trying to install LLBLGen. The solution is to perform the same steps as mentioned in the previous blog entry. This is annoying to say the least and I hope that Microsoft addresses this in some fashion before the release the final product.