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Configuring Multimedia Component Tracking in IIS

You need to perform additional configuration in Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) to make sure Multimedia Components are tracked.

About this task

  • If you are using IIS 6, you always need to perform the configuration.
  • If you are using IIS 7 or IIS 7.5, you only need to perform the configuration if your Web applications is configured to use Classic mode to maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of IIS. If you are running in Integrated mode, no configuration is necessary.

Procedure

  1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
  2. Configure Multimedia Component Tracking on IIS 6 as follows:
    1. Select your public-facing Web site.
    2. Open the Properties dialog for the Web server or Web site.
    3. Select the Home Directory tab.
    4. Click the Configuration tab.
    5. In the Wildcard application maps section, click Insert.
    6. In the Add/Edit Application Extension Mappings section, click Browse and select aspnet_isapi.dll as the Executable.
    7. Click OK twice.
  3. Configure Multimedia Component Tracking on IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 as follows:
    1. Select your public-facing Web site.
    2. In the Features View, click Handler Mappings.
    3. In the Actions window, click Add Wildcard Script Map...
    4. Set the properties:
      • Request path—(leave as is)
      • Executable—browse to and select aspnet_isapi.dll as the executable.
      • Name—give the script mapping a meaningful name, for example ASP.NET-ISAPI-2.0-Wildcard.
    5. Click OK, then click Yes in the Add Wildcard Script Map dialog.