Re: Installing IIS


"Sirocco" <NauticusLX@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Installing vs configuring? Wow, that's a fine distinction.

No it's not at all. Since you have zero experience with IIS, you can't
possilby claim to understand anything about it. Installing a piece of
software is a matter of copying the files to the target hard drive and
making the appropriate registry entries so that the operating system can
execute the software properly. This is a simple matter to do with IIS.

Configuring IIS pertains to how you would like to configure IIS to operate
with regard to a particular web site you are hosting on IIS. Some sites
need integrated security, some don't. Some will use Microsoft's ASP .NET
technology, some won't. Some will want to have the default documents
modified, others will be fine with the defaults. Changing site
configuration options is what is meant by configuring IIS and that is very
much different from simply installing the software.

At work I just tried the same install (via the add/remove components
wizard)and got a "please insert XP Pro CD-ROM". So, same thing as at
home. And, naturally, no disc. Small company, boss doesn't keep track of
discs. The point is, IIS is obviously not "built-in", as claimed by
Microsoft. The point is, to say that it is "built-in" isn't just 10%
inaccurate, or 90% inaccurate, it's 100% inaccurate. It's a big lie! I'm
not overreacting.

You are overreacting. The fact is that the component is an optional part of
the Windows XP Pro. operating system. Because most users don't need it, it
is not installed onto your hard drive by default (having it installed
requires additional services to be running on your machine which affect
security and performance). This coupled with the fact that most users don't
need it, Microsoft correctly chooses for this not to be installed by
default).

So, the software IS AVAILABLE on your disk or in the location where your
installation files are. The fact that you don't have a disk or the
installation files has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Microsoft. An your
argument that this is decieving is just ridiculous and tells me that you are
not familiar at all with how software sales work.

Furthermore, these discs aren't available retail.

That's incorrect and I've already provided you with links to where you can
still purchase them.

Furthermore, the book I'm using to learn SQL Server 2005 is copyrighted
Jan 2006, so it's not like the instructional material is out of date.

What does your book have to do with software being out of date?

And, furthemore, the new trend is to NOT include operating system discs
with the purchase of either new laptops or desktops.

Gee, I thought that's what I said! The software may not be physically
present on a CD/DVD, but new computers DO COME WITH IT on a separate restore
drive or in a designated folder on the main drive OR FOR A SMALL FEE ($5 OR
$10) YOU CAN REQUEST THE PHYSICAL CD/DVD BE MAILED TO YOU. You bought your
computer at a used PC store, not from the OEM.

Granted I was able to install IIS on a Vista box at Best Buy, while a
clerk stood by, having heard my story, but a lot of good this does me,
since all the instructional material I have, and am thoroughly immersed
in, is designed for XP Pro, not Vista. So even buying a new computer will
not solve this problem.

And again, I'll refer you to my other posts, where I've shown you how you
can purchase XP Pro.

And what's interesting is that, rather than offer a work-around, you
continue to insist how easy something is that, according not just to me
but to all available literature, CLEARLY ISN'T! This isn't an
observation, conclusion, or assumption. It's a documented fact. A fact
that is, I've learned, well known.

No it's not a fact:

1. You have not seen ALL available literature.
2. You have mis-understood what you have read and confused install with
configure.
3. You haven't even done an installation of IIS on XP, so you are not
qualified to make a judgement.


Also, I checked with my 4 siblings, all of whom have computers running
XP - none have the CD's.

So, your four syblings are just as stupid as you are?

If you have the CD's, please mail them to me, and I will mail them back.
Let me know so I can send you my mailing address.

Shut your mouth and read my posts. I've given you the answers you seek, yet
you continue to complain.

You are a moron and should probably forget about learining anything having
to do with computers since you can't even understand such simple concepts of
having a source disk and the difference between install and configure.






"Scott M." <s-mar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Clearly, you don't know what you are talking about. There is a world of
difference between installing IIS and configuring IIS. Installing IIS
requires that you simply choose the features of the component you want
(the
default settings are fine for most circumstances) and that's it - it
takes
less than 10 minutes and you don't do anything during that process.

You continue to complain about a procedure that you haven't even done and
have no personal experience with. Don't you agree that it makes no sense
to
argue a point you have very little knowledge of and zero experience with?

I don't know why you are being so argumentative about this. You have no
knowledge of this and I do, yet you are disputing me based on the
mis-understanding of a process you have no experience with - I don't
understand that.


Please read my replies to your other post and you'll see that you are
making a huge issue out of something that is a no-brainer.





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