

Make sure you have administrative privileges on the machine: By default, you do not have them if you are logged on as a user other than the built-in Administrator account, even if this user was added to the local Administrators group on the machine (this is a new security feature in Windows Server 2008, called LUA, which is beyond the scope of this article). For more information on IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista, please review the article IIS 7.0 Features and Vista Editions before continuing. Make sure you have installed one of the supported editions of Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 before proceeding. This walkthrough is for the following editions of Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008: Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 Editions Supported This lab will illustrate the use of pkgmgr command line parameters for installing optional features. Pkgmgr can take a list of windows features to install on the command line or take an xml file name as a parameter for unattend installs.


Allows you to install / uninstall Windows Vista Optional Features directly from command prompt or from scripts.Replaces sysocmgr.exe for installing Windows Optional Features.Pkgmgr.exe is a new command tool in Windows Vista® / Windows Server® 2008 for installing Windows Optional Features:
