Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Getting Virtual Server to Work on Windows Server 2008 running IIS7

I was recently tasked to make my wife’s Palm Desktop software to work.  It had been lying dormant, because we upgraded her machine. Her new operating system is Windows Vista 64-Bit, which is not compatible with the Palm/Access Hot Sync Manager.

 

So I decided to make a virtual machine (VM) that lives on my server.  I installed Virtual Server 2005 sp1 r2.  When I fired up the management console I found that the IIS 7 server didn’t know how to process VSWebAccess.exe.

I found this post that details how to set up the IIS CGI & and Authentication settings to run the interface correctly:

Getting Virtual Server '05 R2 Working on IIS7 in Longhorn Server : A Former Microsoft IIS PM : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m mostly making note so I don’t have to remember where I found this, but this is a very good tutorial.  The only vague part is adding the CGI & Windows Authentication component.  If you have any questions or need any help with Virtual Server, leave me a comment.