This weekend I spent some downtime installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on my laptop. Over dinner, working on the car, and watching a movie I managed to get all the critical software installed, including Office 2007 and Visual Studio Team System. Unlike before, everything seems to work - inlcuding my HP OfficeJet 7410!
But before adding SQL Sever Developer 2005, I wanted to get IIS installed so Reporting Services would have a place to host itself. Unfortunately, Vista doesn't install IIS by default and there's no way that I could find to do it from the control panel. I google'ed for hints, but nothing led me through the right UI screens.
However, I did find this command line statement that seems to install IIS v7. I don't think David's post points out that you should run it in a Command console by selecting the menu item Start/All Programs/Accessories, then right-clicking on the "Command Prompt" option and selecting "Run as Administrator". With the command prompt running under Administrator, execute the long command.
Now SQL Server pre-req's are all happy. Good luck!
Posted by: bill | 2006.07.14 at 12:15 AM