Installing Microsoft SEO Toolkit on Windows 10

I used the Microsoft SEO Toolkit a while back and remember it being useful.

I would like to install it on Windows 10, however the installation fails stating that IIS Version 7.0 or later is required. Windows 10 has IIS Version 10 but there is obviously some incompatibility.

As far as I know it is not possible to install an earlier version of IIS alongside Version 10.

Is there any way to install SEO Toolkit? Or can I only hope that the Toolkit will receive an update?

Duncan Gravill

Posted 2015-11-30T23:40:00.073

Reputation: 365

install a Win7 VM inside Windows 10 (Hyper-V) and use it here – magicandre1981 – 2015-12-01T05:44:37.357

@magicandre1981 I don't have a Win7 license. – Duncan Gravill – 2015-12-09T00:12:13.500

there is a 90 da Win7 trial. recreate the VM again after the 90 day ended. – magicandre1981 – 2015-12-09T05:22:15.667

Answers

It seems the SEO Toolkit suffers from the "assume the first digit is the version", and thus can't parse "10" as bigger than "7". http://ridilabs.net/post/2015/12/11/Install-SEO-toolkit-on-Windows-10-and-Server-2012-R2.aspx suggests a solution:

Open the Regedit.exe
Visit the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp
Change the Major Version attribute from 10 to 7
Install the packages: x64 or x86
Get back to Regedit.exe
Change back from 7 to 10

And I'm with the author of this rant - it's a really lame cop-out to make us do this.

robrich

Posted 2015-11-30T23:40:00.073

Reputation: 241

That fixed it for me. Doh! – Piotr Kula – 2016-06-08T22:26:19.423