From: Kwai-Chang-Caine on
quick disclaimer: I've never installed rs2005 on win7, only w2k8 /w IIS 7

Kwai-Chang-Caine wrote:
>Even though your IIS machine may be working properly, RS2005 won't be able to
>see it. It'll never know its there when it attempts to query for it. This
>is due to changes between IIS 6 and IIS 7.
>
>To quickly fix the problem, just go to go to Server Manager\Roles\Web Server
>(IIS ) and be sure all the roles are added. (all aren't necessary though).
>Once you have your RS/2005 installed, you can back out the roles that aren't
>needed (eg. ftp, asp, etc... ) .
>
>You really must have these enabled though (at a min ) - Management Tools (all
>) ..especially IIS 6 Management Compatibility (and sub cats ) as well as
>Management services.
>
>Just select all the roles for now and you'll be ok ...
>
>>My installation is not recognizing that IIS is loded and/or enabled. Anyone
>>know of why this would be happening. The computer is Windows 7 64-bit and I
>>installed the 64 bit verion of SQL Server. The RS option is greyed out when
>>I try to insall.