Windows 8 Compatibility

Vidar Waagbø

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Hi,

Windows 8 Release Preview was just released a few days ago together with Windows Server 2012 RC1 and Visual Studio 2012 RC1.

I tried to install EPiServer CMS 6 R2 on my desktop computer. The installation was successful after installing the optional .NET 2/3.5 components for Windows 8. However the fun stops at the EPiServer Deployment Center. It keeps telling me that only IIS5-7 is supported. Windows 8 comes with IIS8 as default IIS version.

The IIS8 (just like IIS7) has the option to install a feature called IIS6 Management Compatibility. I was hoping for a way for EPiServer Deployment Center to work properly, either natively or by using these compatibility features.

Has anyone looked further into this problem?

#59364

Jun 04, 2012 13:40

Vidar Waagbø

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Some information:

EPiServer CMS 6 R2 will install on IIS8 if you change the version number registry key.
I was not able to change the registry directly but managed to do it with a console application using Visual Studio 2011 (as Administrator).

The following code. Set the major version back to 0x8 after running EPiServer Deployment Center.

using

(RegistryKey registryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\InetSTP", true))

{

if (registryKey == null) return;

registryKey.SetValue("MajorVersion", 0x7, RegistryValueKind.DWord);

MessageBox.Show("IIS version in registry restored to " + registryKey.GetValue("MajorVersion"));

}

EPiServer is NOT compatible with SQL Server 2012, this is due to use of one or more deprecated stored procedures which has been removed in SQL Server 2012.

#59437

Jun 09, 2012 16:47