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31/03/2017 07:20:42
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Microsoft IIS Server
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Miscellaneous
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01649556
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>>Hi,
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>>I need to install Web API (based on .NET framework) on customer server. Currently the server is used as a repository/share for a VFP application. When I asked the customer IT to enable IIS on the server, he wrote:
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>>I know nothing about Samba and Linux. So my questions is, based on his answer, would the server have an IIS option that could be enabled?
>
>Not directly, no. IIS runs exclusively on Windows OSs, it won't run natively on Linux.
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>If they have a virtualized environment you could ask them to spin up a suitable Windows Server VM. If they don't have a license they can still download and run it for 120 days for evaluation purposes, then purchase a license if they want to use it beyond that.
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>If they have a spare Windows machine lying around they could use that, as long as it supports IIS. The server versions all do, some workstation versions might as well but I don't know if that's advisable.
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>If it's a small operation and they're using a Linux-based NAS as a file server, they may not have any Windows server infrastructure at all, so asking them to set up a Windows VM or physical machine could be a bit onerous.
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>That might be a business opportunity for you. If a customer can't easily provide the Windows infrastructure you need, offer them a cloud equivalent and bill them $X per month.
Thank you (and Michel) for your input and suggestions. I will tell my customer that the Windows 10 app (that I developed) will need a Windows Server VM with IIS and .NET installed (which is pre-installed on Server 2008 and Server 2012). Then it will be up to them if they would want to do it. This client is a big company, I think they are about 500 million dollar company now (actually I started working with them about 25 years ago they were 20 million dollar company. We both grew but not proportionally :)
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>>I need to install Web API (based on .NET framework) on customer server. Currently the server is used as a repository/share for a VFP application. When I asked the customer IT to enable IIS on the server, he wrote:
>>
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>>the server is just a network share where the app files are stored. That file share is provided by Samba running on a Linux server >>>>
>>I know nothing about Samba and Linux. So my questions is, based on his answer, would the server have an IIS option that could be enabled?
>
>Not directly, no. IIS runs exclusively on Windows OSs, it won't run natively on Linux.
>
>If they have a virtualized environment you could ask them to spin up a suitable Windows Server VM. If they don't have a license they can still download and run it for 120 days for evaluation purposes, then purchase a license if they want to use it beyond that.
>
>If they have a spare Windows machine lying around they could use that, as long as it supports IIS. The server versions all do, some workstation versions might as well but I don't know if that's advisable.
>
>If it's a small operation and they're using a Linux-based NAS as a file server, they may not have any Windows server infrastructure at all, so asking them to set up a Windows VM or physical machine could be a bit onerous.
>
>That might be a business opportunity for you. If a customer can't easily provide the Windows infrastructure you need, offer them a cloud equivalent and bill them $X per month.
Thank you (and Michel) for your input and suggestions. I will tell my customer that the Windows 10 app (that I developed) will need a Windows Server VM with IIS and .NET installed (which is pre-installed on Server 2008 and Server 2012). Then it will be up to them if they would want to do it. This client is a big company, I think they are about 500 million dollar company now (actually I started working with them about 25 years ago they were 20 million dollar company. We both grew but not proportionally :)
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