Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI)

Microsoft has announces their Web Platform Installer beta (Web PI) and it includes Gallery support!

I haven't tested this yet, but Web PI should make it much easier to install, amongst others, Gallery on your IIS 7 with FastCGI and PHP.

Gallery even has it's own download page on microsoft.com

Seems like something I need to play with ASAP.

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel

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Published October 16, 2008 09:13
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3 Responses to Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI):

  • Billyboylindien
    October 16, 2008 5:17pm

    The gallery support is a great news.
    Maybe easier to instal but to update and modify … ?

  • Christophe Denuziere
    October 16, 2008 9:02pm

    It strange because microsoft has it’s own ecommerce solution (commerce server) and will propose to install open source ecommerce solutioN.

  • Christian Mohn (h0bbel)
    October 16, 2008 10:39pm

    @Billyboylindien: Well, upgrading should be pretty easy. Since this seems to configure IIS7 for you, all you should have to do is to replace the Gallery 2 files. Modification is another ballgame though, and that is not made easier by Microsoft offering an autoinstall.

    @Christophe Denuziere: I didn’t consider that, but the case here is that Microsoft is offering an autoinstall of PHP as well, which competes with asp.net. Seems like they are choosing interoptability instead of lock-in.

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