Preparing IIS for Autodesk Vault

Are you getting prepared to install Autodesk Vault server and want to pre-install Internet Information Services (IIS)? Well here is how you do it. IIS has a lot of different features, and it is important that you select the correct features for Vault server to install and work appropriately. Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 requires that you install IIS from the Add Roles and Features wizard. Once you start the wizard you have to select the following features of IIS.

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While you can select all of these settings manually, there is a quicker way to install all the features needed. Copy the following into a command line and run it on the server.

DISM.EXE /enable-feature /all /online /featureName:IIS-WebServerRole /featureName:IIS-WebServer /featureName:IIS-CommonHttpFeatures /featureName:IIS-DefaultDocument /featureName:IIS-DirectoryBrowsing /featureName:IIS-HttpErrors /featureName:IIS-StaticContent /featureName:IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics /featureName:IIS-HttpLogging /featureName:IIS-Security /featureName:IIS-RequestFiltering /featureName:IIS-WindowsAuthentication /featureName:IIS-Performance /featureName:IIS-HttpCompressionStatic /featureName:IIS-WebServerManagementTools /featureName:IIS-ManagementConsole /featureName:IIS-ApplicationDevelopment /featureName:IIS-ASPNET /featureName:IIS-NetFxExtensibility /featureName:IIS-ASPNET45 /featureName:IIS-NetFxExtensibility45 /featureName:IIS-ISAPIExtensions /featureName:IIS-ISAPIFilter /featureName:IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility /featureName:IIS-Metabase /featureName:IIS-LegacyScripts /featureName:IIS-WMICompatibility /featureName:IIS-ManagementScriptingTools

Note: This is a one line command line. If they copy and paste this into the command line, they must remove any carriage returns or line feeds.

After that line, you can run the following command line to set the IIS timeout high enough to pass the Vault pre-checks.

set-webconfigurationproperty ‘/system.applicationHost/sites/site[@name=”Default Web Site”]’ -PSPath IIS: -Name Limits -Value (@{connectionTimeout=”00:15:00″})

Irvin Hayes Jr.
Product Manager