Install IIS 7 on Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition

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Internet Information Server is the "webserver" for Microsoft Windows Server environments. This article shows the installation process for installing version 7 on Windows 2008 Server Standard x64.

The article was created in order to test the installation of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with an IIS application server.

IIS functionality is termed a "role" on Windows 2008 Server and the installation is performed using Server Manager.

Start by bringing up Server Manager:

Now click on Add Roles and the Add Roles Wizard begins. If you've not run it before, you get the introductory page:

Click next and the Server Roles selection page appears:

Check the "Web Server (IIS)" role and click next. A dialog appears indicating some additional features that need to be installed:

Click "Add Required Features" and the wizard returns to the role section screen:

An information page appears on IIS:

Just click next to continue. The next page shows the Role Services that will be activated. In order to support OBIEE, I enabled ISAPI Filters and ISAPI Extensions, both of which were disabled by default:

Now, the wizard shows the installation selections for your confirmation:

Click Install to start the installation:

When the installation finishes, click Close to end the wizard. Then reboot the server.

When you restart, you will see under Administration Tools, a shortcut for IIS Manager - the applet for managing the IIS webserver:

Opening up a browser and navigating to the default page for the server shows the default homepage for IIS 7:

That's it.