If you need to install SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express on Windows Vista you might receive an error like the screenshot below.

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?

In Windows XP SP2 it was a pretty simple case of configuring the security/firewall rules for a selected network interface so that ICMP Echo (PING) requests would be allowed to pass through the firewall. ICMP Echo requests are a pretty standard way of seeing if a machine is up and running … depending on [...]