Re: installshield

> At 08:03 PM 8/16/00 +0100, you wrote: > >Configuring PWS seems a straightforward registry hacking job, however > >configuring IIS is another matter. The principles seem the same except > >that the data is stored in the IIS metabase, and of course the > >installation software has no idea of how to talk to that. > >Has anyone done this kind of thing outside of the management console or > >the remote web administration site before? I guess the ideal solution > >would command line based. > > I know that you can run commands like 'net start iisadmin' in a dos > window. I haven't yet run across a similar kind of method for setting > configuration options, but - **if no one else can help on this issue** - I > will see what I can find out tonight. :) Somebody told me today that MS took out the whole command-line DOS prompt interface in WindowsME... A not-so-subtle way to basically cripply cross-platform support, eh? "Embrace and extend" indeed. :-^ I assume third-party patches to this bug will appear immediately, though. :-)