I am trying to install the sharepoint service on a server 2003. I have tried sharepoint 3.0 with no service pack and sharepoint 3.0 with SP2. Both failed with a message saying I had to install and enable ASP.NET 2.0. I remembered that I did enable the ASP.NET when I added the application server role. I even removed and added the application server role again. However the same error message still occured.

Open IIS manager, click on the "Web Service Extension" node and ensure that "ASP.NET v2.0.50727" is "Allowed"Stefan Goner Senior Escalation Engineer - Microsoft CSS This post is provided "AS IS" with no warrenties and confers no rights.

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Thanks guys, Through the process above, I found my ASP.NET was v1.1.4322. How can I update it? As far as I know my system is fully up to date. The server is a Standard Edition with Service Pack 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2 with 3.5 SP1.

wait a sec - you have .NET 3.5 installed. Then run the following command to install ASP.NET 2.0: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i

Thank you! I've got it working after running your given command. By the way, I wonder why we didn't install v3.5 since I already had v3.5 .NET installed.