VS 2003 Server Extension Snafu

Recently I started to convert a virtual terminal server to a development machine so I don't have to worry about my machine dieing on me, leaving me unable to work while it is getting fixed.  Believe it or not I've been through three machines in the last 2 years.  I swear it's not my fault.  My cube is cursed.  Anyway that is why I'm off loading my development environments to a virtual server. 

One of my jobs at work is maintaining a whole bunch of ASP.Net 1.1 projects.  Unfortunately, after installing Visual Studio 2003 it would not open any of the ASP projects.  It would always give the error, "cannot find the components for communicating with the frontpage server extensions".  It wouldn't even let me make a new one but that was helpful since I new it had to be something with the server and/or the install.  I fiddled with it for a few hours then gave up since I could still open and work on them locally.  Then after a few weeks I asked another more experienced guy to look at the problem.  He couldn't get it either.  I finally found the solution here:

http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/archive/2004/04/23/WebProjects.aspx

which basically says; Run msiexec.exe /x {17B66E83-1BC9-11D5-A54A-0090278A1BB8}
Then reinstall the prerequisites. 

It worked.  Thank God.  What a pain.

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