FIX: Can’t connect to Virtual Server 2005 on Vista

May 26, 2006 at 1:20 pm | In Windows Vista |

Further to my last post on installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows Vista here’s some more guidance. Since Vista Beta 2 was released a couple of days ago I’ve helped numerous people in the “office” get Virtual Server up and running on Vista.

After installing IIS with the required components (refer to the massive pkgmgr command line in the other post), Virtual Server installation won’t complain about IIS Admin any more and will install OK.

However, when you try and connect to http://localhost/VirtualServer/vswebapp.exe, you’ll get an obscure error, something like “No access to application data”.

The solution

  • Right-click on Internet Explorer in the Quick Launch toolbar
  • select Run as administrator
  • enter the Virtual Server admin URL, all should be fine.

Obviously the reason for this is that the Virtual Server admin tool needs administrator credentials to be able to manipulate the service. Internet Explorer runs as an unprivileged user in Windows Vista, so you need to run IE using admin privileges to fix this.

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  1. Thanks for the tip. I knew it was an authentication problem but I didn’t know it would only take admin access.Good work,~Zed

    Comment by Zed — November 9, 2006 #

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