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  Installing on an Imaged server (2 posts)

• Previous Student said 2 years, 3 months ago:

  Are there any known issues when installing on an imaged server? For example, to install on an image, I found that IIS must be installed separately on a base Win2K3 Server image and not one that already has IIS as part of the image.

• previousinstructor said 2 years, 3 months ago:

  IIS can sometimes be a problem if it's part of the original issue. Another potential problem is related to the Windows architecture that supports SharePoint. If you plan on having multiple Web Front-End servers and using Windows Load Balancing to tie them together, you will likely have problems unless you delete and recreate the virtual Network Cards on the virtual servers. Otherwise there are conflicts between the cloned cards that cause the load balancing to not work.

  However, I don't have any SharePoint-specific problems that are common on virtual servers. It usually plays very well with the other children…