No Touch Deployment and Win 2003 Server?

[Dave Goldberg]

We're testing our Winforms app on Windows 2003 server. For
previous servers we had to remove the .config file mapping
so the machine config could be downloaded by the
application. In Win 2K3 Server no file can be downloaded
unless there is a mapping for it, which creates a problem.
Anyone know how to configure Win2k3 Server to work with a
no touch deployment and get the machine config file
downloaded?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

You may read this Alan's blog and try the work arounds.

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/alanshi/commentview.aspx/fafd34ae-e72d-44ca-bb2d-
7614ecfa2070

Does it solve your problem?
Please be free to reply this thread, if you still have problem on it.
Thanks!

Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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[Dave Goldberg]

Hi Ying-Shen,

Thanks for the reply.

I have got my deployment working on Win2k Server by
deleting the .config mapping. I already know everything in
the blog posting and it works on previous versions of
Windows Server.

However it does not work on Windows 2003 Server. What I
need to know is how to configure Windows 2003 Server to be
able to download the .config file. Have you tried that
configuration and been successful?

 

[Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

I reproed this issue on my system and discussed with IIS support team. You
need add a MIME type to this Virtual Directory. In IIS6.0, server will not
send a file which have no MIME Type registered, so it always reply error
404.
You may add the MIME Type as
config , text/xml
and try accessing it in IE using url like http://server/vdir/app.config.
If the xml file could be shown in IE, you should have no problem in the No
Touch Deployment.

Note, you still need remove the .config item in the Application handler
extension list.

If you still have problem on this issue, please be free to reply this
thread.
Thanks!

Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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[Dave Goldberg]

Thanks for the reply.

I actually found a solution on my own. Instead of changing
any of the server configuration, I modified the web.config
file. It seems to work and in my opinion is better because
the changes are local to the app.

For anyone who's interested here's a link to what I did:

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/27/ztd.html


I don't know if the solution below works but it seems like
it should work also.


Thanks for the help.