Well I installed the IIS of Windows XP Pro. Took about a day and a half to trouble shoot the thing and get it working with HS2.1. I had to uninstall all instances of ASP.NET from the IIS and re-install it. I think it was defaulting with .NET 1.1 and not .NET 2.0 which is what HS requires. After that the test.aspx page from HS worked fine and I'm able to access the HS application through IIS. Now I'll have to play around with it and see what the pros and cons are of doing this.
The solution I used for fixing the ASP.NET in IIS was to:
- From a DOS command window, change to the latest .net version under C:\Windows\Micorsoft.Net\Framework\2.....
- Then run the following command: "net stop w3svc" to stop web services.
- The use "aspnet_regiis.exe -ua" to uninstall all instances of ASP.NET from IIS.
- Follow with "aspnet_regiis.exe -i" to install ASP.NET into IIS.
- Now restart web services with "net start w3svc".
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