Web PI Installs the Microsoft Web Platform

Posted by Abel Avram on Dec 09, 2008

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Microsoft has made available the Web Platform Installer, aka Web PI, a tool used to install the entire Microsoft web platform including: IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, .NET Framework. A beta Web Application Installer, aka Web AI, has also being made available offering the user the choice to install the most popular free web applications for a Windows Server.

Web PI allows to select specific Microsoft web products and finds out when a new version is available for download. Some of the products included are:

• IIS7
• Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
• SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
• .NET Framework
• ASP.NET MVC
• Visual Studio Tools for Silverlight

Web PI runs on the following operating systems: Vista, Vista SP1, XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, both on 32 and 64-bit machines.

Another installer from Microsoft is Web AI which supports popular ASP.NET and PHP web applications including:

• Graffiti
• DotNetNuke
• WordPress
• Drupal
• OSCommerce

Web AI is supported on Vista SP1 and Server 2008 on 32-bit and 64-bit machines.

Other related links: Web PI Forum, Web Platform Portal.

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   a wish...

   by Ariex Zhao

   Is there any teeny tiny possible that IIS7 can be installed on XP?......

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