Interesting Discovery when Customize a VM
Comments (1) One of my clients requires W2K3 with MSSQL 2005 and .NET 4 as well as Silverlight4, so I started to deploy the VM from Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 template, the template itself is configured with the most basic features, there is no IIS or .NET components.
I’ve encountered a few problems that really surprised me:
When I installed IIS, it asked me for both the Windows Server 2003 and SP2 CD-ROM (it never did if I use a W2K3 without SP2), where do I get that SP2 CD huh? After a while, I figured out the solution is simply to extract the files from the SP2 zip then it completes the whole IIS installation.
Then I encounter another problem when installing SQL Server 2005, the installation failed with error code 1063, Google helped me again, the solution is to install .NET 2.0 first as SQL Server installation files depends on this foundation.
Finally, the client requires .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4. Luckily, I came across this blog page “Configuring Windows Server 2003 with ASP.NET 4.0 while supporting ASP.NET 2.0“.
