Re: Removed IIS and reinstalled, but now IIS 3, upgrade back to 5?

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From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:14:55 +0800

where do you see the word 'IIS 3' in your system ? 

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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"Jim Preston" <Jim Preston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C027CCE7-5D05-4232-81D2-066AE753DA55@microsoft.com...
> Thank you Tom and Kristofer for your time and attention.  I looked
everywhere for version information but found only IIS 3 in some strange
location, maybe the docs.  This seems to be the only MS product that has the
version hidden :-)
>
> I did do windows update and it had nothing for me to update of
significance.  I stay very updated.  So either when I removed IIS the SP 4
and other updates stayed with me or the existance of SP4 in the rest of the
OS fooled the updater into thinking that IIS was fully updated.  As I recall
there have been some important updates to IIS in the past four years.
>
> MS has me trained to be a fanatic about this :-)  Any thoughts?
>
> - jim
>
> "Tom Kaminski [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > "Jim Preston" <Jim Preston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:8814A537-E09B-463F-BC12-23C3D7BA79B8@microsoft.com...
> > > For some reason my IIS in Win 2000 Pro quit serving and finally in
> > desperation I uninstalled and reinstalled from the original CD.  This
worked
> > but put me back to IIS 3.  I have SP 4 installed but all the IIS updates
are
> > probably gone.  How do I get back to the latest updates, which I believe
> > took me to IIS 5?  This is just for a small intranet.
> > >
> >
> > If you have W2K you have IIS 5, you cannot have IIS 3 on W2K.  Run
Windows
> > Update to get all the relevant patches.
> >
> > -- 
> > Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> > http://www.iisfaq.com/
> > http://www.iistoolshed.com/ - tools, scripts, and utilities for running
IIS
> > http://www.tryiis.com
> >
> >
> >

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