[TYPO3] zend core and typo3 on IIS

[John Nicholas]

90%+ of our typo3 sites are on Linux but we have a couple where the 
client wanted to host on windows. I have been pretty unhappy with our 
stability on IIS. From what I've been reading, the zend core installer 
(http://www.zend.com/products/zend_core) is supposed to be the best way 
to run php with IIS. This installer sets up IIS with fastcgi and php5 
and also includes a management tool for easy upgrades.

The basic install went well and it hasn't been hard to figure out how to 
setup permissions. The typo3 dummy installer worked fine for the first 
few steps and I even have Imagemagick building everything fine. I can't 
login to the backend though. My first thought was that sessions weren't 
working but I can see the file created properly by php in the sessions 
directory.

So any guesses on this?