Q:

Trouble installing Exchange 2010 on W2K8r2 .. please help :)

I'm trying to install MS Exchange 2010 (free TRIAL edition from MS) on a virtual pc running W2K8 r2.  When I get upto the stage where it does the readiness checks, it fails.  It's saying it can't find the default website on IIS or something. 

I'm pretty sure i do have IIS installed.... 

and to test this ...

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so .. can anyone help / make any suggestions? 
NOTE: tools i'm using

SUN Virtual Box (because MS VPC doesn't allow x64)
W2K8 r2 x64 bit
Exchange 2010 TRIAL edition

NOTE 2: I'm sure you can download a preinstalled VPC, etc.  etc.  but i'm trying to play around with the installation process, as opposed to the using process. 

A:

Perhaps some optional feature of the IIS installation is needed, here's the stuff you need to install before Exchange 2010 - try going through them.  Lots of different parts for IIS on a CAS role for instance the IIS6 management compatibility pieces I think:
Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart

