How do I remove IIS based components from InstallShield in an upgrade?

Question

In trying to create a major upgrade existing web applications with InstallShield as suggested here I have created a new application pool, but can't create a new IIS application. However while the new install creates the new pool, it doesn't change the existing virtual directory to use the new pool. The logs say virtual directory already exists and leaves it at that.

Is it possible to get the install to change an existing component, or simply how do I delete the virtual directory component since the remove files table expects a directory?

Thanks

Answer 1

Ended up achieving this by

1. Created a Property called WEBSITENAME with the value of the website name from the String Editor table (this is for reuse)
2. Created a VBscript custom action, to run after RemoveFolders with the following condition: IIS_VERSION <= "#6" and NOT INSTALLED

The code is:

Dim objWebServer
Dim objVirtualDir
Dim strAppName
Dim intASPSessionTimeout
Dim SubVirtDir
On Error Resume Next
    CreateApplication = ERROR_SUCCESS
    strAppName = Session.Property("WEBSITENAME")    
    SubVirtDir = "/" + strAppName
    intASPSessionTimeout = 120
    Set objWebServer = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root")
    'Delete the Virtual subdirectory
    Set objVirtualDir = objWebServer.Delete("IISWebVirtualDir", SubVirtDir) 
    Set objVirtualDir = objWebServer.Delete("IISWebVirtualDir", strAppName) 

This does what I needed to do. Now I need to figure out a similar way to conditionally Enable32bitAppOnWin64!