IIS 7 configuration for Cognos 8/10

Recently I was helping a friend to install Cognos 10 on his Windows 7 laptop, the install went smooth but to get the IIS running and have the Portal page come up it took more than 2 hours of googling and tweaks. So i figured it's wise to share this and even if one person can save time it's worth it. Configuring IIS 7 for cognos has changed a lot when compared to IIS 6, where you have straight forward settings to setup virtual directories and allow read/write/execute. In IIS 7 you need to do a bit more or may be it's just for windows 7, I haven't explored IIS 7 on Windows NT 2008. I have included the cognos support link that has the detailed steps in setting up IIS7. Before you follow the link you can enable or install IIS 7 in all Windows 7 professional systems under Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows Components On or Off. Also make sure you enable ISAp and CGi extensions after IIS is installed from the same location under World Web Services(you can google this too).

Cognos 8 with IIS 7:
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21381516


Cognos 10 with IIS 7:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/infrastructure/web_servers/page599.html

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