Joomla and MS IIS

[chriso0258]

Hello,

Hope this is the correct forum to post this question. I've usually worked with Joomla on a Linux server. I may have an opportunity to build a site on an IIS server.

1. Can you point me to some documentation related to the installation on IIS?
2. I am assuming that Joomla will still install a MYSQL db during installation. If the company is using an SQL db, what will be the best way to interact with this? I'm somewhat familiar with some basic php/mysql coding but not sql so I'd prefer to minimize hard coding if possible. Are there any third party components that can be used in retrieving information for site visitors, setting up forms and saving to an sql db, etc? If so, any favorites?

I hope these questions aren't too vague.

Thanks for your help/suggestions.

[Per Yngve Berg]

Mod. Note: Relocated the topic to the Installation J3.x on IIS web server Forum

[sovainfo]

1.See docs.joomla.org for documentation.
2.Upon installation a db will be created when choosing for MySQL. No installation of MySQL will be done. You need to do that yourself.
3. External SQL database is possible to use if there is a driver available. If not, you might have a look at the possibilities of MySQL to make foreign tables available.
4. Look at extensions.joomla.org for forms extensions