Thursday, September 27, 2007 by Niels Hartvig

Time for a new tiny update to umbraco v3, this time the baby is named 3.0.3. Most importantly, this version fixes issues with publishing on load balanced environments. Download from Codeplex.

For new-comers (and the rest of us), the most interesting thing is that we finally got ourselves an installer! Yes, that's correct. The future default distribution format for umbraco will be a nice MSI file that handles everything from checking pre-requisites, setting permissions, adding site to IIS (including an AppPool), installing and configuring the database, etc. Installing umbraco is simply clicking next, next, next and takes less than five minutes. The installer works with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003. Amazing!

The installer is made by Sebastian Gloeckner and Bernhard Frank from Microsoft Germany. Thanks a million!

Here's some screen-dumps (click to enlarge):

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10 comment(s) for “Version 3.0.3 released with installer”

  1. Gravatar ImageWarren Buckley Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 10:06 GMT+1

    Is it possible to explain what steps the installer takes to install umbraco.

    How does it install the database and such?

    Warren

  2. Gravatar ImageStephan Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 10:51 GMT+1

    Will there still be a .zip availiable for those who need to install on shared hosts, or simply prefer to install manually?

  3. Gravatar ImageJesper Ordrup Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 11:44 GMT+1

    Looks cool!

    Will the installer handle upgrading an existing installation?

    Stephan: there's ZIP's available for manual installs.

  4. Gravatar ImageJesper Ordrup Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 11:49 GMT+1

    The installer doesn't work on my vista. I get the message "ended prematurely because of an error".

  5. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 12:26 GMT+1

    @Jesper: Which version of Vista are you using?

  6. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 12:27 GMT+1

    @Jesper: No, only fresh installs (for now).

  7. Gravatar ImageSøren Linaa Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 01:07 GMT+1

    The installer doesn't make the security permissions on Vista folders.
    I had to add them manually. Otherwise it works perfect.

  8. Gravatar ImageSøren Linaa Says:
    27 Sep 07 @ 01:07 GMT+1

    The installer doesn't make the security permissions on Vista folders.
    I had to add them manually. Otherwise it works perfect.

  9. Gravatar ImagePer Ploug Hansen Says:
    28 Sep 07 @ 09:21 GMT+1

    Same thing with the folder permissions, tried installing on win2003 R2.

    Besides that the installer is awesome, love the fact that it handles all website and db creation for me (including the god awfull sqlexpress connectionstrings)

  10. Gravatar ImageTom Says:
    05 Oct 07 @ 05:23 GMT+1

    I'd like to upgrade in production w/out the wizard. Can I just copy the /bin and modify the umbracoConfigurationStatus key in the web.config?

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