Re: Please clarify IIS on Vista Home Basic

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Windows Vista Home Basic will install IIS, but in truncated form .. enough for developers working in code with WCF, for instance, but not enough to act as a proper web server. To run a full version of IIS, you will have to upgrade to at least Home Premium, but preferably Business, Ultimate or Windows Server.

The following Microsoft documents shows which features are added if you go from Vista Home Basic to, say Home Premium or Business:

[Several Internet Information Services 7.0 features are installed and enabled when you upgrade from Windows Vista Home Basic - Microsoft]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930902

Here's an intereseting link which lists the particulars of IIS on different versions of Windows:

[Why you need Vista Business / Ultimate for IIS 7? - MSMVPS.com]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/archive/2007/04/03/why-you-need-vista-business-ultimate-for-iis-7.aspx

And, to quote a Microsoftie:

"Vista home basic only has enough IIS features to support WCF and does not have any of the web-server features (like static-files/directory-listing/asp/asp.net/ssinc etc) - so you cannot use IIS on this sku as a web-server. "

Saucy


"Adam Sandler" <corn29@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3c6b576f-47f1-41b4-b4ae-6323b10ed66e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello:

Every time I read an article or thread on the subject, it makes my
head spin. Half the sources say IIS isn't available on Vista Home
Basic (and before you flame me, that it wasn't available on Windows XP
Home, yes it was. How to configure it was on technet for a while -- MS
has since pulled the page). The other half tells the reader to go to
Control Panel | Turn Windows Features On or Off | check Internet
Information Services, and viola.

However, this install does not seem to put the IIS manager on the
system nor does searching from the start menu for inetmgr yield any
results.

So what's the point of being able to install IIS but not configure or
administer it?

Thanks!

.

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