Web Service Remote Installation
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The Installation "Wizard" for a web service, ask you to install the web service in a virtual directory and working in a given port. Is it possible ( if the user has enough right on that machine) to install it "remote" ? ( I mean on the same lan just tell a machine name). E.g.: I'm on my client machine "Braulio", and from my machine I want to install it on the machine called "WebServer" that I can see in my network ( without using terminal server and that stuff). Thanks in advance, greetings Braulio
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The Installation "Wizard" for a web service, ask you to install the web service in a virtual directory and working in a given port. Is it possible ( if the user has enough right on that machine) to install it "remote" ? ( I mean on the same lan just tell a machine name). E.g.: I'm on my client machine "Braulio", and from my machine I want to install it on the machine called "WebServer" that I can see in my network ( without using terminal server and that stuff). Thanks in advance, greetings Braulio
Installing Web Serivce is not magic if you don't need some task like server registery , GAC or .... After creating your virtual directory, just copy/paste your bin directory and Web.Config and asmx file into virtual directry. If you can do it from your client machine , thats all you need. Mazy "Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high risk activity." - Edward Hoagland
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Installing Web Serivce is not magic if you don't need some task like server registery , GAC or .... After creating your virtual directory, just copy/paste your bin directory and Web.Config and asmx file into virtual directry. If you can do it from your client machine , thats all you need. Mazy "Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high risk activity." - Edward Hoagland
Hi Mazdak ! Thanks for the info, I was wondering if the "Installer" that includes Visual Studio can have that option ( I think it seems not... crappy installer... maybe for VStudio 2004 they should enhance it, deployment it's 80 % of the times neccesary). Bye Braulio
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The Installation "Wizard" for a web service, ask you to install the web service in a virtual directory and working in a given port. Is it possible ( if the user has enough right on that machine) to install it "remote" ? ( I mean on the same lan just tell a machine name). E.g.: I'm on my client machine "Braulio", and from my machine I want to install it on the machine called "WebServer" that I can see in my network ( without using terminal server and that stuff). Thanks in advance, greetings Braulio
Braulio Díez wrote: Is it possible ( if the user has enough right on that machine) to install it "remote" ? Why don't you try it and see? The code to do this is a custom action - a compiled DLL hidden from our prying eyes. Only trying it would tell you. More than likely, though, it goesn't because it doesn't ask for a machine name for which it gets the remote metabase for IIS (via the "iis://" management request). There's nothing stopping you from creating your own if you know how. The installer solution (using Windows Installer) is not meant to be a production-grade solution. For that, see Wise for Windows Installer[^] (have used it from the beta-testing days with them and love it) or the much more expensive and bloated InstallShield Developer[^].
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