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1. The Bullzip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application. This program is FREEWARE with limitations, which means that there is a FREE version for personal and commercial use up to 10 users. It does not contain any advertising or popups.
2. So I discovered tracking setting www server and selected the iis website i created in the drop down list. Then click ok to save the setting. Opened the properties dialog box again and found the www server setting blank. The only setting it accepts is None. Did you come across the same problem. By the way, i am using 64bit Windows server 2008.

Nov 14, 2011  B) Configuration need to be done on IIS. You set the 'handler' your code in IIS to proccess the request for the.pdf as a mapping to your. The configuration includes your having the mime type set for PDF this is set at the server using IIS Manager.

I'm building an ASP.NET application that requires printing using PrintDocument method:

Printing works properly in development env with IIS express. when publishing it to an intranet IIS server, printing fails, which I think is caused by permission issue for aspnet working process.

I tried to do the following with no success:

• I created an application pool in integrated pipeline mode for an admin local user with load user profile option set to true
• I moved the application to the new created application pool
• I added <identity impersonate='true' username='username' password='*****'/> in web.config file
• An error appeared stating that: An ASP.NET setting has been detected that does not apply in Integrated managed pipeline mode so I added <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration='false'/> to <system.webServer> section.

Any help please?

AlBaraa ShAlBaraa Sh

Iis Web Server Configuration

4 Answers

I think you might be misunderstanding some fundamental concepts here. When you use PrintDocument.Print() you are printing on the server. When you deploy your application in IIS this printing will happen on the server computer that is hosting your application. The reason why you thought your code was working in IIS Express is because you were hosting your application on the same computer as the client browser that was testing it. Also you were running your application under your account which had a printer configured.

You cannot print directly to the client computer from a web application. That would be a big security issue. The best you could do is provide some HTML document using a print media CSS type. Then if the user decides, he might print it in his browser.

If on the other hand you want to print on some printer that is attached to your web server, you will need to configure the Application Pool in IIS to run under an identity that has a printer configured in its profile.

Darin DimitrovDarin Dimitrov

I think the original poster has gotten a lot of flack for their question. If you want to generate .PDFs using GhostScript, for example, you install a printer driver and create a printer for it. You can suppress the Saveas() dialog in many languages by providing one ahead of time. This was feasible in earlier versions of IIS (that may have been less secure), but is harder to do in IIS 8.

I think this issue is caused by IIS inhibiting access to the local printer queue. This is either caused by not being in the NT AUTHORITYINTERACTIVE group at runtime, or because IIS will put the user, (whomever is running the app pool) in two groups: IIS APPPOOL, and BUILTINIIS_IUSRS.

You can validate all this by looking at the thread permissions using a tool like Sys Internal's Process Explorer.

Hopefully I am understanding your question correctly, but I just had some confusion myself with this. Our setup at my work is Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.

We have a print server as well installed on the same box (not sure if it matters as this is not my area of expert).

Basically, viewing the installed printers using, PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters I was able to see all the printer names installed on the server.

I attach a debugger to the application process to debug and I can just use the debugger to see this, otherwise you will have to run a loop to print through these. If you run this locally, you will see only the printers installed on your machine. If they are network printers, then the full path will be shown. So determine the path/name the server will recognize the printer as and then set that to the printer name explicitly using the,

PrinterSettings.PrinterName property of the PrintDocument class. This worked for me. Also, my application pool identity is set to NetworkService.

I have faced same issue and I found the following solution and it worked for me.

Paul Karam

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by Kristina Olson

Windows Server 2008 Install Iis

Summary

In this walkthrough, we will show steps for installing and configuring Web Deploy for administrator or non-administrator deployments. This means the steps necessary to enable a client to use Web Deploy to publish Web site content to the server, even if the client does not have administrator credentials for the server.

Note: Currently Web Deploy V3 RTW is only available through direct download. We are still working on WebPI feed. Easiest way to install V3 RTW is to first install Web Deploy V3 RC using WebPI 4 RC (x86/x64) as instructed in Installing & Configuring Web Deploy tutorial, and later update it running Web Deploy V3 RTW msi.

Install and Configure Web Deploy for Non-Administrator Deployments

Requirements:

The server must have an operating system that comes with IIS7— this means either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Use WebPI to install Web Deploy along with its dependencies like the Web Management Service (WMSvc)

1. Install Web Deploy by using either method i or ii below:

   1. Install Web Deploy and dependent products using the Web Platform Installer

      1. Download the Web Platform Installer. https://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
      2. In the upper-right hand corner, click in the search box, type 'Web Deploy', and press ENTER
         
      3. Add the 'Web Deployment Tool 2.1 for Hosting Servers' product and click Install.
         

   2. Download the Web Deploy installer directly from the IIS.net Web Deploy pagehttps://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy (x86 x64)

      1. In the Setup wizard choose the 'Complete' setup option.
         

      2. Note: Using the MSI directly is generally not recommended for the novice user, as recommended or required dependent products must then be installed separately. The following limitations may create issues when using the MSI instead of WebPI to install Web Deploy on servers:

         1. The MSI will not install SQL Shared Management Objects (SMO), which is required for the SQL Server database deployments. This component may be installed using WebPI to enable SQL Server database deployments.
         2. The MSI will not install the Web Management Service handler component if the Web Management Service is not installed; the handler component is necessary for non-administrator deployments. Windows component IIS, including Management Service, should be installed first to enable the handler component to install.
         3. The MSI will not configure Web Management Service to allow non-administrator deployments if PowerShell v2 is not installed. This setup step includes creating delegation rules in the IIS server Administration.config file that allow non-administrator users to use Web Deploy. PowerShell v2 is built-in on Windows Server 2008 R2 but may require a Windows Update for Windows Server 2008. Alternatively the delegation rules may be added manually after install.

Configure a Site for Delegated Non-Administrator Deployment

After installing Web Deploy using method (1) or (2a), described above, all server-level configuration is complete for non-administrator publishing, however additional configuration is required at a site level. This site configuration can be accomplished using methods (1) or (2) described below.

1. Create a new site or set permissions on an existing Web site for a new or existing non-administrator user using Web Deploy PowerShell scripts as explained in the PowerShell scripts walkthrough [link to be added] OR

2. Configure publishing on an existing site for an existing user using the IIS Manager UI

   1. Start IIS Manager (type 'inetmgr.exe' in the Start Menu)
   2. Expand the Sites node and right click a site, such as 'test'
   3. Click Deploy > Configure for Web Deploy Publishing...
   4. The following UI will appear. Click ...
      

   5. Click Select :
      

   6. Type the name of a non-administrator Windows user and click Ok
      

   7. When you click Setup, the following log will lines will appear:

      • Publish enabled for 'NonAdminUser'
      • Granted 'NonAdminUser' full control on C:inetpubwwwroottest
      • Successfully created settings file C:UsersJohnDoeDesktopNonAdminUser_Default Web Site.PublishSettings
   8. The non-administrator Windows user (NonAdminUser) may now publish to the site (test).

Install and Configure Web Deploy for Administrator deployments

Requirements:

Install Web Deploy using method (1) or (2a) described above. If you are using a client operating system such as Vista or Windows 7, or a Windows server version without IIS7+, such as Windows Server 2003, you will need to choose the Web Deployment Tool 2.1 product option in the Web Platform Installer (in install method 2a), or install directly from the Web Deployment Tool download page (install method 2b). For these client or server 2003 machines the Web Management Service handler component and associated delegation rules will not be applicable.

Trouble-shooting Common Issues:

• If you are upgrading an existing installation of Web Deploy, make sure to restart the handler and agent services by running the following commands at an administrative command prompt:
• net stop msdepsvc & net start msdepsvc
• net stop wmsvc & net start wmsvc
• Make sure your firewall allows connections to the service you are using. By default, the Web Deployment Agent Service (MsDepSvc) listens on port 80, and the Web Management Service (WmSvc, also called the 'handler') listens on port 8172 by default.
• You must run MsDepSvc by using the built-in Administrator account, or from a domain account that has been added to the Administrators group. A local administrator which is not the built-in account will not work with MsDepSvc.

• Check to see if .NET 4.0 has not been registered with IIS:

  • Symptoms: .NET 4.0 is installed, but there are no .NET 4.0 application pools or handler mappings in IIS. You cannot browse to applications that use .NET 4.0 (for example, applications based on WebMatrix's site template applications) after you publish them.
  • Cause: Your machine had .NET 4.0 installed on it before IIS was installed.
  • Solution: Run the following command to register .NET 4.0 with IIS: %systemdrive%WindowsMicrosoft.NETFramework64v4.0.30319aspnet_regiis.exe -iru