IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help!

Hello. Can anyone offer advice on this problem? In brief, I am trying to
install IIS on my XP Pro with SP2 PC (via Control Panel -> Add Windows
Components), and it tells me it needs admxprox.dll from the SP2 CD.
However, there is no admxprox.dll on the SP2 CD.

Many more details follow...

I'm nearly sure that I had upgraded to SP2 via an automatic download.
Nonetheless, when I tried to install IIS (via Add Windows Components), I
was told to insert the Service Pack 2 CD, which I didn't have. So I
borrowed one from a friend, and inserted it when the installation
process told me to, but still no luck. So I double clicked the SP2 CD to
explore it, and got the Autoplay program, which wanted to install SP2,
so I permitted it to do so, and restarted as required.

Once again I tried to install IIS, and once again it asked for the
Service Pack 2 CD. This time it was trying to find a file called
admxprox.dll, which I believe is actually different from the one it was
asking for the first time (whose name I've forgotten), so maybe the
installation of Service Pack 2 got us further along.

For what it's worth, the IIS installation program defaults to F:\i386 as
the place to browse for admxprox.dll (where F is, in fact, the drive
letter of the CD drive where I inserted the Service Pack 2 CD).
Unfortunately there is no i386 folder on that CD.

There IS an i386 folder in my Windows\System\ServicePackFiles directory,
but alas it contains no file named admxprox.dll. It does contain
admexs.dll and admwprox.dll, both dated 8/4/2004, which I presume must
be the approximate date that SP2 came out.

The next morning (today), I conducted a full virus scan and nothing was
found but some cookies, after which I went through the SP2 Autoplay
installation all over again, and tried yet again to install IIS via Add
Windows Components. Same result. It still wants admxprox.dll.

Note also: Since the computer was sold to me with XP already on it by a
no-name shop, Microsoft refuses to help me for free. The shop who sold
it to me is 1,000+ miles from where I live now and I don't even know
their phone number. Nevertheless, my license key for XP is valid, as
confirmed by Microsoft when I had to reinstall after a disk crash.

Yesterday evening the aforementioned i386 folder had an update date of
2/16/2006 at 9:39 pm, which is, in fact, when I let the Autoplay
installation program do its thing.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Peyton Todd

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Re: IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help!

As much as I commiserate with your problems, I have to point out the
relevant facts.

You are having issues because the no-name shop failed to provide you
with a copy of the original Windows XP that they installed and setup
Windows to automatically use it. If they did, you wouldn't be having
this issue.

The reason that Microsoft does not provide support for free is simple
- you bought your software and configuration from someone else; why
should Microsoft be liable to support everyone else's
misconfiguration?

It's like when you buy an automobile from a local dealership where the
local dealership did some modifications on the autombile's engine
prior to you purchasing it. You later find issues with your car caused
by those modifications:
- to you, it just seems like the automobile has issues, so you believe
the manufacturer is responsible
- however, the manufacturer never built a car with such modifications,
so it is really unfair to make them maintain and fix those
modifications, despite your now poor impression of the manufacturer
- meanwhile, the dealership both gets your money and dopes you into
blaming the manufacturer and not them
--> This is why you should go back to the local dealership, when there
are national safety recalls (i.e. service packs) or regular tuneup
(i.e. support)

Yes, it's tricky for the average person to distinguish who is
responsible, so usually the bigger organization gets the blame. I'm
not saying that it isn't right; I'm just saying it's not always the
case.

Anyways, back to the question...

You need to use the original Windows XP CD to install IIS, and then
update it with the updated files on XPSP2 CD since your machine is
already at SP2. In short, you need files from both CDs.

You will not be able to install IIS with just SP2 CD because not all
the files are there. SP2 only contains the delta of files that have
changed since original release.

You will not be able to install a patched IIS with just the original
Windows CD since it only contains the original, unpatched IIS.

You have to have files from both CDs, and they can either be in
separate CDs, or a combined "SlipStream" CD which has full XPSP2 on
it.

It is assumed that since you have a valid Product Key that you also
have a copy of the original Windows XP CD, and you should have a copy
of XPSP2 upgrade since it's installed, so this really shouldn't have
been a problem.



//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//




On Feb 17, 10:02 am, Peyton wrote:
> Hello. Can anyone offer advice on this problem? In brief, I am trying to
> install IIS on my XP Pro with SP2 PC (via Control Panel -> Add Windows
> Components), and it tells me it needs admxprox.dll from the SP2 CD.
> However, there is no admxprox.dll on the SP2 CD.
>
> Many more details follow...
>
> I'm nearly sure that I had upgraded to SP2 via an automatic download.
> Nonetheless, when I tried to install IIS (via Add Windows Components), I
> was told to insert the Service Pack 2 CD, which I didn't have. So I
> borrowed one from a friend, and inserted it when the installation
> process told me to, but still no luck. So I double clicked the SP2 CD to
> explore it, and got the Autoplay program, which wanted to install SP2,
> so I permitted it to do so, and restarted as required.
>
> Once again I tried to install IIS, and once again it asked for the
> Service Pack 2 CD. This time it was trying to find a file called
> admxprox.dll, which I believe is actually different from the one it was
> asking for the first time (whose name I've forgotten), so maybe the
> installation of Service Pack 2 got us further along.
>
> For what it's worth, the IIS installation program defaults to F:\i386 as
> the place to browse for admxprox.dll (where F is, in fact, the drive
> letter of the CD drive where I inserted the Service Pack 2 CD).
> Unfortunately there is no i386 folder on that CD.
>
> There IS an i386 folder in my Windows\System\ServicePackFiles directory,
> but alas it contains no file named admxprox.dll. It does contain
> admexs.dll and admwprox.dll, both dated 8/4/2004, which I presume must
> be the approximate date that SP2 came out.
>
> The next morning (today), I conducted a full virus scan and nothing was
> found but some cookies, after which I went through the SP2 Autoplay
> installation all over again, and tried yet again to install IIS via Add
> Windows Components. Same result. It still wants admxprox.dll.
>
> Note also: Since the computer was sold to me with XP already on it by a
> no-name shop, Microsoft refuses to help me for free. The shop who sold
> it to me is 1,000+ miles from where I live now and I don't even know
> their phone number. Nevertheless, my license key for XP is valid, as
> confirmed by Microsoft when I had to reinstall after a disk crash.
>
> Yesterday evening the aforementioned i386 folder had an update date of
> 2/16/2006 at 9:39 pm, which is, in fact, when I let the Autoplay
> installation program do its thing.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Peyton Todd
>
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Re: IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help!

Thanks, David. I feel sure the original XP I do have is not from the
shop that sold me THAT computer, but from the one where I bought a
second XP computer a few years later. In any case the installation of XP
which I have on the computer where I'm having the problem is from a
third computer shop (in a third city), and was installed for me onto the
new hard disk I bought from them to replace my old C drive after it
recently crashed. They said all I had to do was activate it with my key,
which I did successfully. I'm assuming that the original CD I have from
the second vendor won't be rejected for a key mismatch, since that
didn't happen with the CD from the third vendor (their own CD, which
they never gave me). On the other hand, theirs was a clean install.

As to Microsoft's willingness to help, my reason for mentioning it was
mostly not to trash Microsoft but rather to highlight my dilemma in a
plea for help. On the other hand, other firms do provide support for
their products even when they are sold directly by other vendors. Just
two days ago, in fact, two vendors, D-Link and TrendNet, provided me
with extensive support for installing the webcam (D-Link) and router
(TrendNet) which I had purchased from Tiger Direct. While I fully
understand and appreciate the argument you made, it does seem to me that
Microsoft could be just LITTLE bit less hard-nosed.

Anyway, back to my problem, if I understand you correctly, all I'll have
to do is install IIS directly from the original CD that I have from the
second vendor without having to reinstall the whole operating system. In
the latter event, would I have to wipe the disk clean? I hope not since
I've had to go through a lot to get that system going since the disk
crash.

Thanks again for your help, and pardon my ignorance. I'm actually a very
good application developer, but hardware and operating systems are not
my strong point!

Peyton Todd

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Re: IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help!

Hi,

The IIS install will need files from both an original XP CD, and from SP2.
To make it easier for you (so as to avoid having to swap CDs continuously
during the installation), it may be easier to do the following:

Copy the \i386 folder from your XP CD onto your hard disk. Put this in a
folder called "XP" (or similar)

Copy the \i386 folder from your SP2 CD onto your hard disk. Put this in a
folder called "XP SP2" (or similar). If your SP2 CD only have a single setup
file (rather than an \i386 folder), then run the setup file with the -x
switch to extract the contents.

Now, the installer will ask you for files from your CD, or the SP2 CD. Just
browse to the relevant folders as appropriate.

If you want to make it even easier, you can "slipstream" (or "integrate")
the files from the SP2 folder into the original XP folder. Then you only
need to point to a single folder when doing the IIS install:

Most of the links here will tell you what you need to do (just run
update.exe with a few switches)
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=integrate+SP2

Cheers
Ken

"Peyton" wrote in message
news:uhcEiHtUHHA.4276@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Thanks, David. I feel sure the original XP I do have is not from the
> shop that sold me THAT computer, but from the one where I bought a
> second XP computer a few years later. In any case the installation of XP
> which I have on the computer where I'm having the problem is from a
> third computer shop (in a third city), and was installed for me onto the
> new hard disk I bought from them to replace my old C drive after it
> recently crashed. They said all I had to do was activate it with my key,
> which I did successfully. I'm assuming that the original CD I have from
> the second vendor won't be rejected for a key mismatch, since that
> didn't happen with the CD from the third vendor (their own CD, which
> they never gave me). On the other hand, theirs was a clean install.
>
> As to Microsoft's willingness to help, my reason for mentioning it was
> mostly not to trash Microsoft but rather to highlight my dilemma in a
> plea for help. On the other hand, other firms do provide support for
> their products even when they are sold directly by other vendors. Just
> two days ago, in fact, two vendors, D-Link and TrendNet, provided me
> with extensive support for installing the webcam (D-Link) and router
> (TrendNet) which I had purchased from Tiger Direct. While I fully
> understand and appreciate the argument you made, it does seem to me that
> Microsoft could be just LITTLE bit less hard-nosed.
>
> Anyway, back to my problem, if I understand you correctly, all I'll have
> to do is install IIS directly from the original CD that I have from the
> second vendor without having to reinstall the whole operating system. In
> the latter event, would I have to wipe the disk clean? I hope not since
> I've had to go through a lot to get that system going since the disk
> crash.
>
> Thanks again for your help, and pardon my ignorance. I'm actually a very
> good application developer, but hardware and operating systems are not
> my strong point!
>
> Peyton Todd
>
> *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***

Re: IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help!

Many thanks, Ken. It's working now!

Peyton Todd

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Re: IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help!

> While I fully understand and appreciate
> the argument you made, it does seem to me that
> Microsoft could be just LITTLE bit less hard-nosed.

Your example does not seem comparable.

I honestly think Microsoft is perfectly reasonable in their approach
in this instance, even if it seems hard-nosed, because otherwise
people would not hesitate to take advantage or complain
inappropriately.

Tiger Direct is merely reselling DLink and TrendNet, so I doubt that
Tiger Direct is providing support. DLink and TrendNet ought to support
for their product.

However, if Tiger Direct went and produced an integrated solution
using DLink and TrendNet and made modifications of them, I suspect the
response would be different.

I understand from a personal perspective, it does not look friendly.
But sometimes, the bad apple spoils the bunch, and we're just the
bystanders getting caught in between. And don't we see tons of that in
Life on a daily basis...

Ken's given you the steps for integrating. You need data from both
original and SP2 CDs to make it work.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//




On Feb 17, 12:26 pm, Peyton wrote:
> Thanks, David. I feel sure the original XP I do have is not from the
> shop that sold me THAT computer, but from the one where I bought a
> second XP computer a few years later. In any case the installation of XP
> which I have on the computer where I'm having the problem is from a
> third computer shop (in a third city), and was installed for me onto the
> new hard disk I bought from them to replace my old C drive after it
> recently crashed. They said all I had to do was activate it with my key,
> which I did successfully. I'm assuming that the original CD I have from
> the second vendor won't be rejected for a key mismatch, since that
> didn't happen with the CD from the third vendor (their own CD, which
> they never gave me). On the other hand, theirs was a clean install.
>
> As to Microsoft's willingness to help, my reason for mentioning it was
> mostly not to trash Microsoft but rather to highlight my dilemma in a
> plea for help. On the other hand, other firms do provide support for
> their products even when they are sold directly by other vendors. Just
> two days ago, in fact, two vendors, D-Link and TrendNet, provided me
> with extensive support for installing the webcam (D-Link) and router
> (TrendNet) which I had purchased from Tiger Direct. While I fully
> understand and appreciate the argument you made, it does seem to me that
> Microsoft could be just LITTLE bit less hard-nosed.
>
> Anyway, back to my problem, if I understand you correctly, all I'll have
> to do is install IIS directly from the original CD that I have from the
> second vendor without having to reinstall the whole operating system. In
> the latter event, would I have to wipe the disk clean? I hope not since
> I've had to go through a lot to get that system going since the disk
> crash.
>
> Thanks again for your help, and pardon my ignorance. I'm actually a very
> good application developer, but hardware and operating systems are not
> my strong point!
>
> Peyton Todd
>
> *** Sent via Developersdexhttp://www.developersdex.com***

IIS won"t install with SP2 - Please help! - Peyton

Hi,
This is my first post and foray into IIS so forgive me if this is wrong but....

I had this same problem.

I got IIS installed by simply doing the following:-

1.Used one of the windows xp with sp2 disks we had lying around
2. The "admxprox.dll" file is there on the disk it is just called "admxprox.dl_" in the /i386 folder. I used that and it seemed to install.

Of course i havent yet figured out how to test it to see if it works yet!

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