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The installation program, InstallShield, is a 16 bit application, and as yet, Microsoft does not support 16 bit software on its 64 bit machines.

KB960267 - Does not appear to be necessary on Server 2008 x64. This is good because it does not install!

Manual Installation for 64 bit Windows.

Daniel of WEP mentions
"You don't need to enable IIS7 to run 32bit ISAPI filters like AuthentiX using the steps for II6, but you will need to set Enable 32-bit Applications = True in Advanced settings for the App Pool for your particular site. So you cannot use Authentix to secure a 64-bit app, but IIS7 can run 32 bit and 64 bit app-pools simultaneously I believe."
Thanks Daniel!

On the 64 bit computer, create the installation directory.

Copy all files and subdirectories from the original AuthentiX installation directory to the new directory.

Copy the files authxdb.dll and axodbc.dll in the system32 directory to the new syswow64 directory

Make sure the OS allows 32 bit application to run (I am a bit hazy on how to do this, if you have details, please let me know).

Open a command line window and go to the new installation directory, then register the OCX files authxocx.ocx and AXSupport.ocx using regsvr32.

On the 32bit machine, use regedt32 and go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
/Software
/Flicks Software
/AuthentiX
/1.0
/AuthentiXConfig

right click, and Export this to a .reg file. Move the reg file to the new computer, and import to the same location.

You will likely need to place it in the node starting at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software

Run
Regsvr32 flicksiisinstall.dll
in the installation directory.

Run Internet Services Manager (Start-AdminTools-IIS). Open the machine name, right click on Websites - Properties, ISAPI Filters tab and add AuthXflt.dll in the installation directory.

Double check your serial number and registration code by pressing Alt-P in the About Box.

Restart IIS.

To enable IIS6 to run 32bit ISAPI filters like AuthentiX, see here: 32Bit ISAPI Filters.
If this doesn't work, see here: Setting up IIS.
Metabase editing.

If you are able to run and test an automated installer for the above steps, please let me know.

I’ve reverted IIS back to 32 bit operation and AuthentiX is now working again.

Following are the procedures I did in order to get it functional to the current point:

• Set ASP.net to run in 32-bit mode.
  Open CMD window and navigate to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
  Run aspnet_regiis.exe –i
  This will install the 32bit edition of ASP.net 2 (will work with ASP.1 as well and I haven’t tested with .3 yet)
  
• Set IIS to run in 32-bit mode.
  Run cscript c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET /w3svc/AppPools/Enable32BitAppOnWin64 true
  This sets IIS to run in 32-bit mode.
  
• Unpack the AuthentiX files into C:\Program Files (x86)\Flicks Software\Authentix.
  However, if you are going to use the .adb database file then don't install in Program Files (x86) because it won't be able to read/write the file.
  Use something like c:\flicks\authentix
  
• Copy the axodbc.dll and authxdb.dll to the C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64 directory
• Register the authxocx.ocx, AXSupport.ocx and FlicksIISInstall.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\Flicks Software\Authentix
• Add AuthentiX to IIS's Web Service Extension library and set to allow
• Add the ISAPI filter to the Web Site Properties making sure to name it "Membership Protection Software" (I'm not sure if this is critical or not but I couldn't get it to work until I found this buried in the Flicks FAQ section)
• Import the following registry key.

  <BEGIN KEY>
  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software]
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX]
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX\1.0]
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX\1.0\AuthentixConfig]
  "Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Flicks Software\\AuthentiX\\"
  "Version"="1.0"
  "OCX"="authxocx.ocx,FlicksIISInstall.dll,AXSupport.ocx,ByCOM
  	\\AuthXVB\\AuthXVB1.dll,ByCOM\\AuthCOM\\AuthCOM.ocx,ttnocx.ocx,TimerToken.ocx"
  "Name"="Butch Fleischer"
  "Serial"="546828"
  "Email"=""
  "Company"="Merrick Towle"
  "ActualProductCode"="o7bhe2ckrkw41ekjkokhkwkqk"
  "IIS4Setup"=dword:00000001
  "WMS9"=dword:00000001
  "WizardDone"=dword:00000001
  "VQU"="Administrator"
  "VQP"="D3PMm2MICRS0"
  "Permission"=""
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX\1.0\Security]
  "Permitted Alternate Methods"=hex(7):4e,00,54,00,4c,00,4d,00,00,00,00,00
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX\1.0\Settings]
  @=""
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX_ISP]
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software\AuthentiX_ISP\1.0]
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Flicks Software
  	\AuthentiX_ISP\1.0\AuthentixISPConfig]
  <END KEY>
  

  
  
• Restart IIS and better yet, reboot the server if possible.

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