Does anyone know if it's possible to run IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008. From what I understand Windows Server 2008 R2 is an exclusively 64-bit OS. Can we upgrade IIS7 to IIS7.5 on Windows 2008 (not R2)
Unfortunately, you cannot. IIS has always been tied to an OS release and is only available on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
Keep in mind that a 64-bit OS runs most 32-bit things just fine in WoW64 (Including IIS application pools), are you prohibited from running something on that server this way?
Is there anything in particular that you need? Some of the features of 2008 R2 are available for download at http://www.iis.net/download including the Admin Pack, WebDAV, FTP 7.5 and more.
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Azure service configuration allows to alter osFamily. Currently there're two options. Value 1 (the default) selects Windows Server 2008 and value 2 selected Windows Server 2008 R2.
I'm currently with the default (2008).
What changes should I expect if I just change to R2? Will it be faster? Will anything likely break?
You should see this as if you were upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7, as described in this question: What's the difference between Windows Server 2008, 2008 SP2 and 2008 R2?.
If you're building web applications the largest impact will probably come from IIS. Windows Server 2008 uses IIS 7.0, Windows Server 2008 R2 uses 7.5. Read about the differences here: What's New in the Web Server (IIS) Role (IIS 7)
There's also a whitepaper that describes the new and changed functionalities and features: Changes in Functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2.
To answer your question if anything will break I would say no (although something could always go wrong). I've deployed many applications to Windows Azure and this never caused issues for me. When I upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 it felt like I was using a more mature, stable and better performing system, and I would dare to believe the same applies to the server releases. And advantage is that you'll have new features available, like the Win32 support to mount VHD files (I think this relates to your VHD question).
How can I check what version of Windows Imaging Component is installed on a Windows machine? I suspect the Windows 2008 Servers used in Azure do not have the same version that I have on my Windows 7 development machine. I just want to verify that as I need the latest TIFF codec.
Will not make a definite statement, but I think that the WIC on the Windows Azure is the same what you have on your Windows 7. Just be aware that there are 2 OS families in Windows Azure. OS Family 1.x is using Windows Server 2008 SP1 as base, while OS Family 2 is using Windows Server 2008 R2 as base.
From what I read about WIC, I see it is part of Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2, so, if you target your application for OS Family 2, you shall nothave issues. Unless there is some update, or more recent version which has installer. If there is an installer, you can simply use a startup task to install the exact version you need.
UPDATE
Refering this post confirms that Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 come with WIC. While a platform update is required for Windows Vist / Windows Server 2008 (you must install Server 2008 SP2 before the update is available). So, if you target OS Family 2.x (recommended anyway) you get the same WIC you get in your Windows 7 machine.
Migrated an apps to Windows Azure - previous platform was windows server 2008 R2. When I try to configure os it gives me two options with Windows Server 2008 SP2 being default. Are there any known issues of selecting Windows Server 2008 R2? Any performance implications. I was assuming that since R2 was released later and had some enhancements related to virtualization etc it should be better.
Yes, I'd go for Windows Server 2008 R2, which is based on the Windows 7 kernel rather than the Vista kernel used by Windows Server 2008 SP2.
I'd expect that Microsoft make the 2008 SP2 option available for Azure customers that have not yet tested their applications under the newer platform.
Could anyone suggest me on this- we have sharepoint 2007 running on win server-2008 64bit
and we are about to upgrade to 2010 sharepoint, problem is do we keep the 2008 64bit as is or
upgrade to R2 and install SP 2010 on it.
obviously R2 must be more reliable than 2008 but just asking if we can we just upgrade
2008 to R2 with out a new server?
any help is appreciated!
Consider
Have the 2008 installation been unreliable and if so is it really windows? If it has it might be time to buy some new hardware
Are you worried about the support and update cycle for windows 2008? Obviously the ones for R2 will extend further into the future
However, If it's a dedicated SharePoint server machine that has been running just fine I see little or no reason to upgrade to R2.
If you choose to keep your server upgrading to Windows 2008 R2 remember to install the sp2 for SharePoint 2007 (wss3) BEFORE you upgrade.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) - English
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79bada82-c13f-44c1-bdc1-d0447337051b&displaylang=en
When i first started doing sp2010, i used windows2008. That was a real pain, things were just buggy. As soon as i moved to r2, no more bugs. So i would say go with r2. It also means you can install r2 sp1.
Currently I have a set of web applications that need to be installed (using IIS). They can only run in 32-bit mode so requires IIS to be set to run 32-bit apps. The steps that we've taken to do this work for server 2003 64-bit, and 2008 64-bit, but does not work on server 2008 R2 64-bit. I've spent many hours on this and I'm stumped.
The following are the steps performed to get the web apps installed:
1. Set "enable32BitAppOnWin64" app to true
2. Uninstall old ASP.NET stuff using 32-bit version of aspnet_regiis.exe: "aspnet_regiis -ua"
3. Install ASP.NET stuff using 32-bit version of aspnet_regiis.exe: "aspnet_regiis -i -enable"
As mentioned before, the above works fine on server 2003 64-bit and server 2008 64-bit, just not server 2008 R2 64-bit. Steps 2 and 3 give me the error: "Operation failed with 0x8007000B. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format". After some searching, this is something to do with me running 32-bit application (aspnet_regiis) with IIS which is a 64-bit app. Step one has worked, as the flag has been set in the IIS GUI.
Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me where I'm going wrong, and why this doesn't work for 2008 R2.
Thanks
I know its a late post, but what I ended up having to do was run aspnet_regiis on the Framework64 folder and selecting the "Enable 32-bit Applications" on the application pool I was using and my sites came up.
In Vista and higher OS's ASP.NET is part of the OS and needs to be installed. You can install ASP.NET from the add windows features under Web Server.
The v4.0 version should work fine from both 32 and 64 bit folders.
Check for your Windows version.
If its a Windows 32 bit try running 'aspnet_regiis -i' from
C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.52707 folder
Or If its a 64 bit run it from
C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework64\v2.0.52707 folder