During install cannot get Continua established in IIS

Continua CI Discussion
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When I go to install, After the Share Dialog box.

If I choose an existing share, or create a new share and click next this error show up. I can continue but the only item I see is the software gets installed and the services and IIS is not setup.  The services are not started and I have to switch to the system account to get the services started.

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The error didn’t show up in your post, can you tell me what version of windows you were using and 32 or 64 bit, and also whether you have IIS Admin Tools and Scripts installed?

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I was able to get all installed.  I have a few comments.  in the InstallGuide,  You mention to have IIS installed.  I would add a note towards to confirm that IIS Management Scripts and Tools are installed.

On the Dialog box Setup- Continua Agent Agent

   The following items look odd

       Having the Title with the word AGENT twice

       The Select Continua Agent Agent Workspace Path.  is duplicated on the main manner location.

 

Also Install locaiton for the WorkSpace Path,  I would recommend establishing this to ProgramData location and if you need to adjust the security attributes, you can do this during the install.

 

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Thanks Dennis, we’ll look at these tomorrow. We use constants everywhere in the installers so the duplication should be easy to fix (I suspect it’s using the wrong constant there). The default workspace path is a bit more tricky. I’ll look at making the default programdata, but ProgramData isn’t always the best option… the workspace path needs to be on a disk with plenty of space because if the agent is busy (ie does lots of builds per day) the disk space needed can be quite high (also depends on the size of the source code repositories.

The installer should be checking for the IIS management scripts and Tools… if you didn’t have them installed and you didn’t see the warning then let me know.

Please also note, when reporting issues, it’s important to let us know about the Os version and whether it’s 32 or 64 bit. There are some code differences in the installer for IIS6 & 7/7.5, the IIS detection code is different so knowing which IIS version or OS is important.