Re: WIN2000 and IIS

From: Mike Kennedy (mikek@syrinx.ucr.edu)
Date: 08/27/01 

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Kennedy <mikek@syrinx.ucr.edu>
To: Margaret CTR Rhodes <Margaret.CTR.Rhodes@faa.gov>
Subject: Re: WIN2000 and IIS
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.04.10108271416500.1218-100000@syrinx.ucr.edu>

This happened to me as well... this is because there are some components
later on in the list, specifically COM that requires IIS to be installed.
If you select these components IIS will be reselected for you. Nice
feature huh?

Mike

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Margaret CTR Rhodes wrote:

> This may be a subject answered in the past, but I haven't seen anything on it
> lately.
>
> Yesterday, our systems administrator, Mike Miller of RS Information Systems,
> loaded Win2000 on a server and deselected IIS. Despite this, IIS loaded anyway
> with no notification that the deselection had been ignored. He tried this a
> couple of times and our Incident Response team is testing it now. The only way
> he knew that it loaded was that he went in and checked the list of services--and
> there it was!
> Is there any information out there about this on any version of W2K?
>
> There were several people out there that may not have put the patch on because
> they deselected IIS--and then were hit with Code Red.
>
> Here is the configuration of the machine.
>
> It's a Gateway E-5200
> Processor - Pentium III 600 MHZ
> Memory - 256 MB
> Adaptec 29160 Controller
> Hard Drive - IBM DMVS 18.2 GB
> Nic - 3C905c
> Win2000 Basic
>
> Maggie Rhodes
> ISS Analyst
> RS Information Systems
>
>
>
>

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    ... Subject: WIN2000 and IIS ... Yesterday, our systems administrator, Mike Miller of RS Information Systems, ... with no notification that the deselection had been ignored. ...
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