IIS (Internet Information Server) is a group of Internet servers (including a Web or Hypertext Transfer Protocol server and a File Transfer Protocol server) with additional capabilities for Microsoft's Windows operating systems. With IIS, Microsoft includes a set of programs for building and administering Web sites, a search engine, and support for writing Web-based applications that access databases.

IIS is not turned on by default when Windows is installed. The IIS Manager is accessed through the Microsoft Management Console or Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.

Before Installation

Please note DSWEB requires .NET framework with ASP.NET Framework With IIS Server installed into the Web Server

To enable IIS, Please follow the following URL:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/ms181052(v=vs.80).aspx

Please make sure following application development features are enabled into the server (They can be enabled from server manager features)

• .Net Extensibility 4.0
• ASP
• NET 4.0

Installing IIS 7 on Windows Vista and Windows 7

Ensure that you have installed one of the editions of Windows Vista or Windows 7 on which IIS 7 and above is supported before you proceed. Not all IIS features are supported on all editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Home Basic and Starter editions include only limited basic features of IIS. To see a list of which features are supported on the edition of Windows you are using, see one of the following:

• Available Role Services in IIS 7.0 (Windows Vista)
• Available Web Server (IIS) Role Services in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7)

Also be sure that you have administrative user rights on the computer. By default, you do not have administrative user rights if you are logged on as a user other than the built-in administrator, even if you were added to the local Administrators group on the computer (this is a new security feature in Windows Server® 2008 called Local User Administrator). Log on either to the built-in administrator account, or explicitly invoke applications as the built-in administrator by using the runas command-line tool.

Note that you can run runas /user:administrator cmd.exe so that every application you run from that command line will be elevated, eliminating the need to use the runas syntax from that command line.

Install IIS 7 or Above

1. To open the Windows Features dialog box, click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. In the Control Panel, click Programs.
3. Click Turn Windows features on or off.
4. You may receive the Windows Security warning. Click Allow to continue. The Windows Features dialog box is displayed.
5. Expand Internet Information Services. Additional categories of IIS features are displayed. We recommend:

• wwwservices
• Asp.net
• Server side includes
• Static content enabled

Other settings can be left as the default.

Web Management tools:

• Web management controls (required)
• IIS Management Scripts and Tools
• IIS Management service

6. If you are installing IIS for evaluation purposes, you may want to select additional features to install. Select the check boxes for all IIS features you want to install, and then click OK to start installation.
7. The progress indicator appears. When the installation completes, the Windows Features dialog box closes, and the Control Panel is displayed.
8. IIS is now installed with a default configuration on Windows Vista or Windows 7. To confirm that the installation succeeded, type the following URL into your browser, http://localhost.
9. Next, you can use Internet Information Services Manager to manage and configure IIS. To open IIS Manager, click Start, type inetmgr in the Search Programs and Files box, and then press ENTER.
10. If you want to use ASP, Microsoft® ASP.NET, or PHP, install the modules needed to host these pages; this can be done during the installation of IIS or after the installation is complete.Use Unattended Setup to Install IIS 7.0 and aboveIIS can also be installed unattended on Windows Vista. For detailed instructions and scripts, see Using Unattended Setup to Install IIS 7.0 and Above.