System Center Essentials Issue

September 12, 2007

This is a strange problem here - requirements are all messed up. I

need to install Microsoft System Center Essentials and it requires a

couple of things. I am running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64

Edition. When I go to install System Center Essentials I get a

"Failed" message because "ASP.NET 2.0 is required" and when I click on

"More" I get "ASP.NET 2.0 is not enabled. Please refer to the

documentation on how to enable ASP.NET." Ok, fine. So I figure out

that I need to enable ASP.NET to work on 64 this 64-bit system. So I

go to the Web Server Extensions in my IIS and Allow: "C:\WINDOWS

\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_filter.dll" then run the

command: "cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set

w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0" - well great until I try to

install SQL Server. So I run SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - but

then I get a warning "64-bit ASP.Net is Registered. Required 32-bit

ASP.Net to install Microsoft Reporting Services 2005(32-bit)." WHAT?

Should I just run the 32-bit version on the SQL Install and then

switch the ASP.NET back to 64-bit on the System Center Install?

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