[b:22w5pdcp]Issue[/b:22w5pdcp]
I have a dual core athlon 64 fx-60 machine with Vista Ultimate newly installed. I want to run VMware Server 1.x to be able to run a Linux distribution as well. The VMware Server install will not complete. I get the message ‘25301 – IIS configuration failed. You must configure manually..’ with an ‘OK’ button. I click OK, and the wizard finishes and tells me it was interrupted and the install will be rolled back, it does that, and that is that. I have tried it using ‘run as administrator’ and not as my ID as administrator on the machine.

[b:22w5pdcp]Solution[/b:22w5pdcp]
OK, a little looking around and I found that if you use F8 when starting Vista and choose to disable device signing, VMware server 1.0.1 will install. You do get some messages about digital drivers and ‘do you really want to do this …’ , just answer affirrmatively and it will complete.

I notice that when you reboot the machine, in order for VMWare to startup correctly, you must disable device signing again. In other words VMWare will not run unless you disable device signing. It was not just an install thing.