WordPress 3.0 Installed on IIS 7.5 with mySQL

Here is a quick layout of instructions in installing WordPress on Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7.5

From IIS

Web Platform Installer
New Web Application box
Select WordPress
Click Install
Click I Accept at the EULA
Enter Site Information
Website:  New Web Site
WordPress application name:  /
Web Site Name: blog.boneyard.org
Physical Path:  c:\inetpub\blog.boneyard.org
IP Address:  All Unassigned
Host Name:  blog.boneyard.org
Click Continue

Enter Application information
Choose Your database:  MySQL
Create New database
Database Administrator:  root
Database Name:  blogboneyardorg
Finished
Exit

****folder permissions of Modify, Read & Execute, List Folders, Read and Write on the c:\inetpub\SiteName folder to ServerName\IUSR

Open site in a browser
Site Title:  Boneyard Blog
Username:  admin
Your E-mail:  admin@boneyard.org
Click Install WordPress

Login to Wordpress

Logout and do the following

http://blog.obxbill.com/?p=582

Click Dashboard and then Updates

An updated version of WordPress is available.
Click Update Automatically
After you see "WordPress updated successfully", click Go to Dashboard