IIS Installation Problem
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Topic: IIS Installation Problem
Posted By: MikeHanson
Subject: IIS Installation Problem
Date Posted: 20 January 2004 at 4:48pm
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Hi, I'm trying to activate iis on a win xp laptop. Installation using the control panel->add programs->windows components most often hangs at about 80% and inetmgr returns an error message "Snap-in failed to initialize". What am I doing wrong Mike |
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 20 January 2004 at 6:56pm
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XP Home or Pro? Nevr installed from the control panel. Always installed from the installation CD. ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeHanson
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 9:02pm
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XP Pro Tried it that way too with same result. Have turned off Norton NAV and Firewall with no effect |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 10:38pm
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The only other thing I could think of off hand would be to go into the control panel system management console and see what services are running. Check out iis, smtp, and http to make sure their started. Also doucble click on each one to see what dependencies they have and make sure those are started. At one time I had munged up my rpc service which all three needed. -------------
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Posted By: MikeHanson
Date Posted: 25 January 2004 at 2:14pm
| Thanks for the thoughts. When I double click on the iis service I get a "snap-in failed to initialize" error. I have a feeling one of the MS security fixes is gumming this up. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 January 2004 at 3:42pm
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Do you by any chance have the .Net Framework installed? If you installed iis after the .net framework, you should re-register the framework. On my xp pro machine, it's done by:
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Posted By: MikeHanson
Date Posted: 25 January 2004 at 5:10pm
| No, no .net framework. I think I'm going to reformat the machine from scratch since it will only be running a stand alone web based address database called Act for Windows |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 27 January 2004 at 4:57pm
it would probably be a good idea just to buy an operating system specifically designed to run IIS... Like Windows Server 2003, or if your wallet itsn't that thick there's always Windows 2000 Server and KaZaA  ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: donkyflip
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 3:07pm
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I am having the same basic problem. I had IIS installed successfully at one point. I installed the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit and ASP.NET to go with my installation of VS.NET 2003 Pro. After that, I began having problems. The VB-RK support team recommended uninstalling the Kit and IIS and then reinstalling. I did the uninstalls. Now, when I try to install IIS, the installer stops at about 80% complete and just hangs there. When I go into Add/Remove components, IIS components are checked as existing. Oddly enough, though, when I go into the Computer Management console, IIS does not appear in the Services and Applications- but I do have the FrontPage 2000 Extensions Management Console. Anyway, anyone out there know how I can get IIS installed cleanly again (without wiping the entire OS)? BTW, I am running WinXP-Pro w/SP1 and all fixes to-date and have .NET Framework v1.1 installed. |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 3:56pm
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go into Add/remove windows programs under add/remove menu thingy... uncheck IIS click next... that'll uninstall it, then just go back in and reinstall it using the same way ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: donkyflip
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 4:14pm
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I've done exactly that several times now, and install still fails to complete successfully. I am going to try doing the uninstall. Then try re-installing each of the sub-components one at a time to see if I can determine wich of the components is causing the installation to fail. I'll report my finding here if anything useful comes out of this exercise.
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