Wednesday, March 18, 2009 by Niels Hartvig

Today Microsoft announced the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) and on the behalf of our awesome community, I'm proud to announce that Umbraco is one of the few applications that are featured as a part of the launch.

The Web PI means an end to complex installs. As from today you can install Umbraco in one single click. That includes installing a webserver, database, Umbraco, permissions, etc. One click on a web page and within minutes, Umbraco is up and running regardless of you're running XP, Vista or Server.

Kudos to the Microsoft team including Bill Staples and Rusian Yakushev and Umbraco MVP Paul Sterling from Motus Connect who helped making this happen! This is a huge step forward - today Umbraco went mainstream in the best possible way. 2009 will be the best year ever to be in the Umbraco business.

So, why don't you try it now. Just click this little button below:

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9 comment(s) for “Umbraco featured in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer”

  1. Gravatar ImageAim24 Says:
    19 Mar 09 @ 08:24 GMT+1

    Congratulations to the Umbraco team for this great step forward!

    Now we can have a basic site running in under 5 minutes!

  2. Gravatar ImageRonnie Says:
    19 Mar 09 @ 08:53 GMT+1

    Great work!..

    Looking forward to test it on my new laptop :-)

    //See you @ codegarden!..

  3. Gravatar ImageRaithlin Says:
    19 Mar 09 @ 08:56 GMT+1

    Excellent news! Now I have no excuse for not getting that dev PC up and running. ;)

  4. Gravatar ImageTom Maton Says:
    19 Mar 09 @ 10:22 GMT+1

    Great news!!

    I have only been using Umbraco for a short while and think its a fantastic CMS already.

    But this just puts the icing on the cake.

  5. Gravatar ImageSøren Vestø Says:
    22 Mar 09 @ 11:36 GMT+1

    Unfortunately it seems to be broken. When trying to install Umbraco via WPI on my Server 2003 I get an error saying "Object of type 'package' cannot be created". According to the WPI forums this has to do with the availability of the package on CodePlex.

    I tried yesterday to install Umbraco on Win XP via WPI. That failed miserably.

    So all in all not the greatest starting experience.. :-/

  6. Gravatar Imageumbraco konsult Says:
    23 Mar 09 @ 07:12 GMT+1

    This is awesome!

    It´s really good that new people get to know all the good things hidden within this great CMS!

  7. Gravatar ImageFrancis Favorini Says:
    25 Mar 09 @ 01:07 GMT+1

    @Søren Vestø: Not sure if this is the cause of your issue, but I've had intermittent problems getting to the CodePlex site for the last few days. Presumably, WPI will handle these sorts of outages with a more useful/friendly error message in the future.

  8. Gravatar Imageniekos Says:
    30 Mar 09 @ 04:19 GMT+1

    Does not seem to work at the moment in my vista enterprise installation, I get the following error: Object of type 'package' and path 'C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers\filedownload2.aspx-DownloadId=62884' cannot be created.
    Any idea how to solve this? The rest of the installation (.Net, Sql etc) was successful.
    Also a codeplex problem?

  9. Gravatar ImageMatte Says:
    04 Apr 09 @ 09:49 GMT+1

    niekos: Set your servers timezone to -8 Pacific time. Yeah i know. wierd huh? But it works for me.

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