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QUESTION POSED ON: 12 May 2004
Is there a way to check and see if someone has installed the .NET Framework on a Windows NT4 server? SP6a is installed, but the system administrator doesn't know if .NET is installed or how to check. I called MS and they told me to use RUN MSCONFIG, but the server couldn't find the command. Can you help? I am a DBA and need to install an ASP.NET app on this server for database connectivity.

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The simplest way I have found to detect if the .NET Framework has been installed or not is to check for the existence of the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoft.NETFramework." You can find out what versions have been installed by enumerating the keys under the sub-key "policy." However, you are somewhat out of luck using NT4 for ASP.NET since, according to Microsoft: "ASP.NET Web applications and XML Web services can only be hosted on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003." (see full details). Sorry!


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