I installed DNN 6.2.2 today and thought I would both share my first impressions and ask a few questions.

I used the Web platform installer that's built into the IIS Manager. Hat's off to Microsoft for this handy little tool.

My first few attemots at installation were utter failures. I have a web farm. Even though I have DNN setup to route through to a single server, the web farms default timeout of 30 seconds was too great for DNN 6.2.2 installation process on a quad core with 16gm of RAM.

Each time I got to the step in the install wizard where I created the host login and chose a template it would crap out on me. Pressing F5 didnt help because the user already existed. Giving a new host user name didnt help either because it then got foreign key constraints.

Once I figured out that I neeeded to increase the web farm proxy timeout I was able to get past this.

I then arrive at a screen, pre-logged in as Super User (host) that has a broken image where apparently a profile avatar should be (just between the username and the word logout.

Ignoring this, I moved on to purchase a skin and get it installed.

I go to Snowcovered.com and buy a skin. I then go to Host-->Extensions and link up my account. At this point I discover that the skin I bought includes three zip files and that only one of them shows up in the list within DotNetnuke. It seems I cannot install my skin from here,

Moving on, I scroll to the bottom of the page (again, I am at Host-->Extensions) and look for the link to Install an extension, but IT ISN'T THERE! I looked under Admin-->Extensions also but no luck.

On another site that I upgraded to DNN6, there is indeed a link titled Install Extension Wizard but it simply doesnt apear in DNN 6.2.2 after finishing the installation.

How the heck do I even get a simpe skin installed?