RE: IIS won't load ASP.NET, "specified metadata not found"

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From: MikeL (MikeL_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:59:02 -0800

Try uninstalling and reinstalling IIS. If that doesn't work, there may be
some tools to rebuild a default metabase.

"Lowell" wrote:

> Windows XP SP2 + Symantec AV + VS 2003 with .NET Framework 1.1
>
> IIS won't load or run existing ASP.NET applications and VS can't create or
> load web projects (HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error).
>
> Event System log shows a warning with the following attributes: User: N/A,
> Source: W3SVC, Category: None, Event ID: 36, Description: The server failed
> to load application '/LM/W3SVC'. The error was 'The specified metadata was
> not found.'
>
> I found the MSDN articles for VS 6.0 and when you are trying to run both 1.0
> and 1.1 Frameworks at the same time. Neither appears to apply in this case.
> The mfc42.dll has the correct permissions ("Read & Execute" for
> "IWAM_<Computername>") and I'm not using Framework 1.0 (although there is
> that rump group of four files in the
> <Windir>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705 directory.
>
> The company I work for recently had us run some home-grown software to
> "lock-down" our systems--I also had some other issues come up.
> Unfortunately, that made it so I couldn't even load and run web pages that
> had been working for months. Anyway, I've worked through almost everything
> and I think this is the last issue.
> --
> Lowell

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