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Making Sure Your Machine Can Run the Azure Compute Emulator

February 17, 2011

At today’s Azure Boot Camp in Dallas, a number of people had issues working with the demos for the Access Control Service labs. This was due in large part to IIS not being completely configured on their local machines. At one point in time their was a single document on MSDN that outlined everything you need to do to configure your machine to run the emulator. That document is now obsolete. The content that was in that document is now in several documents on MSDN. To ensure you have IIS configured correctly, you can take a look at the following two documents:

However, these won’t get you all the way there for the labs. You’ll also need to install the following components for IIS6 compatiblity:

  • IIS Metabase
  • IIS6 Configuration Compatiblity

To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open Control Panel
  2. Open Programs
  3. Click on Turn Windows features  on or off
  4. Navigate to the Internet Information Services node
  5. Open the Web Management Tools node
  6. Open IIS6 Management Compatibility
  7. Check IIS Metabase and IIS6 Configuration compatibility
  8. Click OK

Hope this helps!

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