Re: Installation of Urlscan 2.0

From: David Wang [Msft] (someone@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/26/03 

From: "David Wang [Msft]" <someone@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:54:37 -0800

Well, in this case, your imagination is just running wild. We're not
installing "crap" to your drive at all. And trying to decide all things and
do them automatically is a good thing (most of the world population are not
administrators/power users) -- they just want to run something that works
and is perfectly happy with what we choose. To give the option to do things
manually, along with instructions, is a plus and should cover everyone else.
In the case of URLScan, that's what we did, and I think we covered all the
bases.

Believe me, in the case of URLScan, some of us involved wanted to just
release the necessary files along with an instruction document. But, we
were outnumbered by others that want to automate setup for "everyone else".
Setup is legitimate functionality and is not "crap". But, if you know what
the file does and think you don't need it, feel free to remove it. I will
absolutely not say one way or another about it because you know what you are
doing. 

--
//David
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
//
"Aladdin" <aladdin@remove-this.antakalnis.lt> wrote in message
news:3E801A63.C64A60CA@remove-this.antakalnis.lt...
"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> Ok, here's the story:
> If you don't want to know what's going on but just want to have URLScan,
run
> urlscan.exe to automate the setup, or run IISLockD.exe
    Microsoft has one trouble for a long time - it tries to decide all
things
and do them automaticaly instead of administrators. Because of that we often
have following situation - windows works as they want and not as admins
want.
> If you know what you are doing, go ahead and extract the files from
URLScan
> and manually install it as an ISAPI Filter.  All the instructions and
> documentation are provided.
> If you don't know what you are doing but still want to manually install
> URLScan... stop causing trouble. ;-)  You just need to pay attention to
> URLScan.dll and URLScan.ini, as documented.  I do not want to give you
extra
> rope to hang yourself just because you want to.  If you really want info
on
> Application Mappings and IIS behavior, we can have a separate chat.
    David, I know exactly what I want to do. But in addition to that I want
to
know why unattended installation copies extra crap to my drives if I must
only
care about these two files? Can you answer that? In our country most admins
are
not so lazy and they simply don't like these your all automations.

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