This will install the .NET package on your system. You should be connected to the internet while enabling the .NET Framework using Windows Features.

When we go to enable the .NET Framework from the Control Panel, it tries to activate the existing files on your system or download and install the required files if need be.

Backstory - this started out as me trying to apply the .NET 1.1 SP1 update. It wouldn't go, so I figured let's start over from scratch. I uninstalled 1.1 with add/remove, no problems there. then I ...

Windows Server 2008 x64, two of them in fact in an NLB cluster. Trying to install .NET Framework 4, first went fine, second refuses. Running installation package - both the web installer and full ...