Preparing Your IIS Server for Future Mosaic Vivarium Updates

Background

This topic is for customers with Mosaic Vivarium installed on local servers.  Releases of Mosaic Vivarium after June 2011 will require the following features on your IIS server:

• .NET 4
• URL Rewrite Module 2.0

Please take a few minutes soon to make the preparations shown below.

Solution

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 installer can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17851

The URL Rewrite Module 2.0 installer can be found here:

http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite

The installation takes a few minutes and does not require a server reboot.  Once completed, you will have a new Feature in your IIS Management Console:

We also anticipate using an ASP.NET v4.0 application pool in Integrated pipeline mode.  Instructions regarding this configuration change will accompany future updates.

How to Create the Mosaic Web Windows Event Log Source

Background

This topic is for customers with Mosaic installed on local servers.  Mosaic logs exceptions in the Windows Event Log using event source “Mosaic Web”. These events may be used to help diagnose certain configuration errors, such as an inability to send emails from the application.  This article describes how to create the Mosaic Web event source.

 

Solution

Get a command prompt running as an Administrator on the Mosaic web server. (On Windows Server 2008, run a command prompt as administrator by right-clicking and choosing “Run as Administrator.”)

Change directories to the “bin” directory of the Mosaic web.

Run the following command:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil vci.dll

Mosaic events may now be viewed in the Windows Event Viewer under the “Mosaic Web” source.