The last few articles on Digital Formula have been about unattended installations of various Windows components and add-ons. You’ll get most use out of these articles if you take the steps described in them and make up a post-build script that you can run when Windows has finished installing.

There’s not a lot of point having an article on this site about how to perform an unattended installation of IIS6 (Windows XP & Windows Server 2003) and ignore IIS7 (Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista). So, here’s the article about how to perform an unattended installation of IIS7. Ready?

At some stage you will want to install IIS6 on a server that doesn’t already have it. Let’s assume for a minute that you’re the administrator of a network with servers that require a fairly standard installation of IIS6 - why not create a script that does it all with one click? Read [...]