Install and Configure Virtual Server
Setting up Virtual Server consists of two steps—installing Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), and installing Virtual Server.
Steps covered in this section:
Install Internet Information Services 13
Internet Information Services is a prerequisite for installing Microsoft Virtual Server. Virtual Server uses a Web-based management console that depends on the Internet Information Server World Wide Web service.
Install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 14
The installation process will automatically set up the Virtual Server Administration Website.

Install Internet Information Services
You must install the World Wide Web Service component of IIS so that you can use the Administration Website to manage Virtual Server. To follow along in this test scenario, install IIS on DC_SRV, the physical server on which Virtual Server will be installed.
1. From the Start menu of the physical computer that will run the Virtual Server service, select Programs > Administrative Tools > Manage Your Server. In this test scenario, this server is DC_SRV.
2. Under Managing Your Server Roles, click Add or remove a role.
3. Read the preliminary steps in the Configure Your Server Wizard, and then click Next.
4. On the Server Role page, click Application server (IIS, ASP.NET), and then click Next.

Figure 3 Server Role page
Note: By default, the wizard installs and enables IIS, COM+, and DTC. In addition, the Configure Your Server Wizard enables Microsoft® ASP.NET by default.
5. Read the summary, and then click Next. You will need the installation medium (CD or network file share) for the operating systems of this computer to complete this step.
6. Complete the wizard, and then click Finish.

Install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
You are now ready to install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on the physical computer. In the test environment, install Virtual Server on the DC_SRV server.
1. Start Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Setup from the Virtual Server 2005 CD-ROM.

Figure 4 Ready to Install page
Note: If you start the setup wizard manually, be sure to use Setup.exe.
2. Proceed through the wizard until you reach the Setup Type page.
3. On the Setup Type page, click Complete, which installs Virtual Server by using the default configuration, and then click Next.

Figure 5 Setup Type page
4. On the Configure Components page, either accept the default Website port value of 1024, or type a new value for the port, and then click Next. In this example we will use the default.
Next, you have two choices:
• If you plan to always run the Administration Website as the authenticated user—to access resource files only on the local computer—accept the default setting Configure the Administration Website to always run as the authenticated user.
• If you plan to access resource files on a remote computer, select Configure the Administration Website to always run as the Local System account. See Appendix D for information about this option.
To follow along in this test scenario, select Configure the Administration Website to always run as the authenticated user, and then click Next.

Figure 6 Configure Components page
5. On the second Configure Components page, leave the Enable Virtual Server exceptions in Windows Firewall check box selected. Click Next.

Figure 7 Configure Components page
Note: With Enable Virtual Server exceptions in Windows Firewall selected, the Setup Wizard adds an exception for the Virtual Server service (vssrvc.exe) to every port on the computer. It also adds an exception to port 135 for Remote Procedure Call, which is required for the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)-based services upon which Virtual Server depends.
6. Click Install to begin the installation.
7. When the installation is complete, the Setup Complete page appears. Click Finish to close the page and exit the setup wizard.
Note: You can close the Installation Summary page that opens in Windows® Internet Explorer® when the installation is complete.