For Windows 7 VDAs that will use Personal vDisk, install Microsoft hotfix 2614892 A computer stops responding because of a deadlock situation in the Mountmgr. Information about Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8 including tweaks, slipstreaming, install, registry, and forum for all Windows versions. Warning You can download the IIS 7 certificate files, which are compatible with IIS 8. The Official Microsoft IIS Forums. I posted this as a response to. General Forum, but thought Id copy it here in hopes it might generate a little more search engine love for those folks that have been as frustrated as I have trying to find guidance on how to enable RDS. Dataspace objects on IIS 7. Disclaimer I know that the use of RDS. Dataspace business objects is likely to generate some mild cardiac events in network admin types, but when you are faced with legacy applications that still rely on it, and cannot be modified to apply modern web services. What follows are the steps I used to enable RDS on IIS 7 both x. My own interest was for providing remote RDS based desktop clients with access to the. ASP apps that need to invoke COM objects in a similar fashion. I will attempt to list the steps I followed to get it enabled on my servers in hopes that it might reduce the amount of frustration folks have been having trying to find information. Although hopefully people move past using RDS, these types of instructions are valuable to the IIS community for devs supporting RDS. A flexible easytomanage web server. Internet Information Services IIS for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting. File Exclusions for SharePoint, SQL, OWA, IIS and Windows Server . Note I think the biggest tip I can suggest is to attempt this on a fresh W2. K8 server install with the Application Server and Web Server roles enabled get RDS working first prior. Hopefully you all have access to a snapshot of a baseline virtual server image that you can easily revert to in the event something goes haywire I have to say that Hyper v has saved my butt a. ROCKS. There are a couple of tricks involved here this is especially true in 6. If you do not have this luxury, Im afraid that YMMV with regard to the steps outlined in this guide. Steps to provide MSADC RDS Dataspace support in IIS 7 1. Login with credentials that provide local admin permissions. IIS7_summaryview.png' alt='Install Iis Common Files Windows 7' title='Install Iis Common Files Windows 7' />Open IIS Manager and connect to the local computer. Double click the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions icon in the IIS section of the Home pane. Select Add from the Actions pane. Set the ISAPI or CGI path by navigating to the location of msadcs. On 3. 2 bit machines the default location is found at C Program FilesCommon FilesSystemmsadcmsadcs. On 6. 4 bit machines, you will also want to be using the 3. I could get to work at any rate, so make sure you direct the path to point at the proper bits found. C Program Files x. Common FilesSystemmsadcmsadcs. Star Plus Serial Kasauti Zindagi Ki. Provide any description you like I chose RDS ISAPI Library7. Check Allow extension path to execute and click the OK button to dismiss the dialog. Highlight the newly created entry in the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions pane and click Edit Feature Settings link in the Actions pane. Theory Of A Deadman Angel Acoustic Ep S more. Check the Allow unspecified ISAPI modules checkbox. Click the OK button. Click on the local computer name in the Connections pane again and then double click the Handler Mappings icon found in the Home pane. Double click ISAPI Dll in the Features View pane dont worry that it appears grayed out, you will enable it in a later step1. Accept the defaults for the Request Path and Module. Use the button to browse to the  msadcs. Executable value. Click the Request Restrictions. On the Mapping tab, check that Invoke handler only if request is mapped to File is selected. On the Access tab, check that Execute is selected, then click the OK button to dismiss the dialog. You will then receive a prompt asking if you want to allow this ISAPI extension well duh, click the Yes button. Highlight the ISAPI dll entry from the Handler Mappings pane and click the Edit Feature Permissions link in the Action pane. Enable all 3 permissions Read, Script, and Execute. Click the OK button. ISAPI dll handler should now move to the Enabled category. Since RDS is now configured to run in 3. Id recommend creating a new one unless you dont mind forcing all of your default web apps to run in the 3. Click on Application Pools in the Connections pane and click the Add Application Pool link in the Actions pane. Give your new App pool. App Pool, set it to use the. NET 2. 0 Framework, and run in Integrated managed Pipeline Mode. Click OK. c. Highlight the new 3. App Pool and click the Advanced Settings link from the Actions paned. Set the General Enable 3. Applications value to True. Click OK1. 7. So far so good about all we need to do in order to complete the IIS 7 RDS configuration tasks is add an MSADC application to the default web site. Expand the Sites under the local computer name in the Connections. Default Web Site Icon. Click the View Applications link in the Actions pane. Click the Add Application link in the Actions pane. Enter MSADC as the Alias, select an appropriate Application pool the Default App Pool for x. App Pool created for x. Physical path value. In order for RDS to be used to invoke COM Business Objects, the MSADC Application needs to impersonate the same identity used by the COM applications servicing the targeted business objects. Before dismissing. Add Application dialog, click on the Connect as button. Under Path Credentials select the Specific user and click the Set button. Supply the appropriate service account credentials that match the COM Application Identity in the spaces provided. Note The User name field needs to be entered in the. My. DomainMy. COMService. Account. Click the OK buttons until youve dismissed all dialogs. Restart IIS by clicking on the local computer name in the Connections pane and clicking on the Restart link in the Actions pane. If all went according to plan, IIS 7 is now configured to support RDS. Dataspace object creation from remote clients or ASP pages. But you are not quite ready to use it yet you still need to create the appropriate. ADCLaunch registry entries to expose your COM business objects for consumption by RDS clients. Open regedit. exeb. Navigate to HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetServicesW3. SVCParametersADCLaunch. HKLM HKEYLOCALMACHINEc. Right click on the ADCLaunch key and select New Keyd. Enter the Prog ID for the COM object you are wishing to expose i. My. Server. Test. Objecte. Lather, rinse, and repeat for each additional COM object you wish to serve from RDS each object gets its own key. Congratulations You have just stepped back in time about 1. RDS to provide IIS 7 web access to COM business objects hosted on a Windows Server 2. Optional While you have the registry editor open you might want to make some additional changes in the interest of better securing your server from the known vulnerabilities that exist. RDSServer. Data. Factory components of the MDAC stack if you are not using them, that is. The simplest way to prevent malicious users from hijacking these components is to delete the Advanced. Data. Factory and RDSServer. Data. Factory keys from the registry. You will probably encounter errors when you try this because for some unknown reason, Microsoft has not granted full control permissions to these keys to the local administrators group. The fix is pretty simple though. Right click on the Advanced. Data. Factory key and select Permissionsb. Click the Advanced button and select the Owner tabc. Highlight the Administrators group and click the OK buttond. Assign full control permissions to the Administrators group and Click OKe. Delete the keyf. Repeat for the RDSServer. Data. Factory key. Inform your network Gestapo that you have sealed this security hole so they can sleep better at night despite the knowledge that RDS is now enabled on their web farm. Thats really all there is to it.