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Icon of Vance HuntFriday, October 31, 2008
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Q: I installed IIS 6 on a server that already had the .NET 2.0 framework installed.  When I installed IIS, it doesn't show ASP.NET 2.0 as being installed. When I try to reinstall the .NET 2.0 framework, it returns an error.  What do I have to do to get IIS to enable ASP.NET 2.0?
 
A: The versions of .NET tend to not automatically reconfigure themselves when your environment changes, so if the .NET platforms were installed and IIS wasn't, they didn't bother with the IIS configuration.  When you install IIS, they still don't know about IIS, and IIS doesn't know about them, so it's up to you to tell .NET about IIS.  It's a pretty easy task once you know what the deal is:

  1. As an administrator, open a command prompt.
  2. Stop IIS by typing the command: iisreset /stop
  3. Navigate to the specific .NET installation directory by navigating to: %WinDir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[Version]\
  4. Install the IIS components by entering: aspnet_regiis -i
  5. Restart IIS: iisreset /start

You may need to go into the IIS administrator and enable the service, but at least it is there.



Q: I'm trying to use Windows RUNAS command to launch a program as a different user.  I keep getting an error saying " RUNAS ERROR: Unable to acquire user password".  I can log on as that user normally, so I don't see what the error is.
 
A: The only times I see this error are when the user has a typo on the command line, typically around the alternate user's credentials.  When entering in the alternate user, you must enter DOMAIN\USERID - be it for a local account (COMPUTER\USERID) or the domain account (DOMAIN\USERID).  Ensure you're using both parts, and that they are separated with a backslash.  Also, you need to ensure you're using the NetBIOS name, not the DNS name.  What this means is that you can't use the User@Domain.Ext format, and your user name is the no-space, up to 16 character id, not any longer user id you may use to log on elsewhere.




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