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title: Configuring IIS for the installation of Kentico
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

For the Kentico Installer to work correctly with your IIS, check that the following features are enabled in your system.

> **Note:** If these features are not enabled, the Kentico Installer might not detect that IIS is installed on your computer, and could additionally install IIS Express.

1. Open the Windows **Control Panel**.
2. In the Control Panel, click **Programs and Features** and then click **Turn Windows features on or off**.
3. In the Windows Features dialog, expand the **Internet Information Services -> World Wide Web Services** category.
4. In the **Application Development Features** category, enable **ASP.NET** (Windows 7) or **ASP.NET 4.5** (Windows 8).

   - This should automatically enable the **.NET Extensibility** (.NET Extensibility 4.5), **ISAPI Extensions** and **ISAPI Filters** features.
5. In the **Common HTTP Features** category, enable the **Static Content** feature.
6. Click **OK**.

On Windows 7:

![Enabling IIS features on Windows 7](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/configuring-iis-for-the-installation-of-kentico/IIS_win7.png "Enabling IIS features on Windows 7")

On Windows 8:

![Enabling IIS features on Windows 8](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/configuring-iis-for-the-installation-of-kentico/IIS_win8.png "Enabling IIS features on Windows 8")