Im not able to Install IIS Through InstallShield

[Ramanathan2017]

Im using Installshield 2015 im not able to install default IIS based on Operating System. Please help me regarding IIS Installation in Installshield.

[chad_petersen]

Microsoft changes how all of that works fairly regularly so the recommendation is to never attempt to install any Windows Components automatically - Simply detect what is missing, warn the user and exit. In the warning you can give a hint as to how to proceed.

Otherwise, any hotfix or service pack that MSFT releases could easily break your installer and you would only have yourself to blame.

I like to make robust installers that do not rely on anything that is not recommended.

Chad

[Cary_R]

Microsoft changes how all of that works fairly regularly so the recommendation is to never attempt

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I was told once that we absolutely had to do this, because we can't trust our users to know how, so please take a look at it, would you?

What I ended up with was a prerequisite batch file of surprising complexity, because across a handful of supported windows versions you've got:

• Different command line tools for installing windows features
  
• Even across two versions with the same command line tools, the windows feature names change
  
• Sometimes they change what subfeature a feature belongs to
  
• Sometimes they change the dependencies of the feature
  
• The solution Microsoft created for this (powershell DSC) isn't necessarily supported across all platforms
  
• And if it was, you'd have to install Powershell to start with
  
• Which is a windows feature in itself, so return to step 1 and start over with the task of installing a windows feature.