Any webdevs (or perhaps more correctly IIS Admins) out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

I know this is a bike forum but I know there are other IT bods out there and possibly some of you have skills in the web sphere.

I run a basic internal internet site (IT support into and web based tools). It used to sit on IIS6 on XP and all was nice. I've had to move it to a Vista box with IIS7 and whilst I have most of it working there's a couple of things I can't figure out.

I used to be able to link to a .bat file and when the link was followed I'd be prompted if I wanted to run it. This now doesn't work.

In a similar vein I used to be able to create links to .lnk files (Shortcuts) which when followed would cause the document to open in it's native application.

Can anyone shed any light for me?

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

You are looking for an IIS Admin rather than a Webdeveloper.

Unfortunately I dont know IIS as I use Apache.

Kind of my way of saying sorry I cant help you.

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

Duely noted and post ammended (though it kinda looses something in the flow now ;-))

I did always specify that it was an IIS(7) question.

(2mths scribbles note to self about Apache 'brain' for future reference)

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

Sounds like its the security b*ll*x in vista thats causing your problem rather than IIS7

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

Ok I got part of my original post wrong. I started this post on Friday and in the course of getting my thoughts straight to write it I had some new ideas etc and actually worked some of this out. I added a MIME mapping for .lnk and got the linking to files working. What I hadn't done was the same for .bat. Now you've mentioned it again I've just added a mapping for that too and guess what... it works - Hooray.

So points if there were any to the rubberduckofdeath

Added later...
Ooh the bit about IUSR is also useful. You've reminded me I normally change the user context that my website run in (to something very naughty) - I need to work out how to do that now.

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

Whilst I think I know where you're coming from - Vista is a pile of 5h1t in sooo many ways.

Whilst not wanting to go into a rant here... I had to start hacking my machine as soon as it was built to try and get things working. Most of my applications are set to start as Administrator, even IE - because if I don't do that I can't create new favourites or use the built in search.

I've 'had' to install VMware and run an XP instance on it as it's the only way a chunk of my stuff will work.

Re: Any webdevs (or perhaps more correctly IIS Admins) out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

And there was me thinking you were after someone with some "WebSphere" skills ;-)

I'll get my cagoul :rolleyes:

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

IIS. Why would anyone want pile of junk. Just install Apache, tomcat and php and you have all the tools you need. Oh by the way. Put a decent version of linux on the box as well.

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

Opinionated indeed.

A linux box would be about as useful as a dead fish for administering a wintel environment.

Re: Any webdevelopers out there? IIS7 help pls?
 

So just replace the lot with Ubuntu for the desktops and Ubuntu Server for the servers.

When the users complain, show them the eyecandy and they will go all "oohhhhh shiney!!!!" and not complain any more.