Where did IIS 6.0 Go? I am having problems configuring IIS7?

[drummelhart]

I am a newbie to Server 2008. Sadly, I was not able to start testing against this OS until this last week when I started compatibility testing with our web applications.

Upon starting up IIS 7, I realized that the IIS 6.0 GUI is gone, and in its place where numerous icons.

I then started to look for the settings I needed to configure each Virtual Directory; I could only find one which was under the application pools.

I am not a web developer, I am an admin, and I am used to my IIS 6 standards, not XML files. I have searched through technet, kb's as well as Google and am coming up bone dry for help.

Do you have any articles worth reading, or a book on IIS 7 administration for that matter?


Thanks for all your help!

 

[itsp1965]

Try MS official IIS site

http://www.iis.net

as a good starting point

 

[drummelhart]

dude, that site to me right now is a lost cause, especially the forums. All persons there are developers, not Admins.

I need to find an admin that has successfully used this Server Role

 

[mrdenny]

I've setup IIS and got it running. What's the problem?

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[drummelhart]

Thank you for replying

I work for a company who creates web applications for hosted clients as well as clients who want to buy our product and host on their IIS Servers Windows Server 2003 Std or EE.

At this time I am working on compatibility testing and I have had to work very hard to configure Server 2008 IIS similar to Server 2003 IIS.

I believe I have everything configured to what I feel like 90 percent.

The only problem I have now is the fact that when I try to browse to the default.asp page, I receive this error:

The system could not authorize you for access.
Your Windows User Account is not a member of any Windows Group granted access to this site.
Please contact the site administrator for assistance.

How would this be so when I am an admin on the Server IIS resides.

 

[kmcferrin]

Am I hallucinating, or wasn't it possible to install IIS6 on Windows 2008? Or maybe there was an IIS6 management console you could use?

I so rarely get into IIS stuff these days.

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[itsp1965]

A simple google search for "IIS6 Console in Windows 2008" led me to this;

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397374.aspx

Although it discusses Exchange, it shows you how to setup the IIS6 console under Win2K8

 

[mrdenny]

It'll give you the IIS 6 console for managing FTP and SMTP but that's about it.

An error like that sounds like you don't have the NTFS rights to the folder, or there's something in the web.config which is preventing your domain group for accessing the web application.

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[drummelhart]

what we are seeing is though we are administrators in the admin group, it does not consider us Built-In Admins. Is this something that was changed on Server 2008?

 

[mrdenny]

If you have UAC enabled this is true. If UAC is disabled this isn't true.

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[drummelhart]

this was something new that I did not know o, thanks to MS for not speaking of how deep the UAC lies within

 

[xmsre]

Add the role in server manager IIS 6 compatibility...

 

[drummelhart]

but as MrDenny stated IIS6 only deals with FTP and SMTP which I do not care about.