Re: I hate IIS - "Server Application Unavailable" error message

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re:
!> I do NOT have a folder for "Application Pools"

Sorry to tell you this...but you probably have a bad IIS installation.
That folder *should* be there if you installed IIS 6.0 on W2K3.

The only thing which occurs to me is that you might be running IIS 6.0 in IIS 5.0 compatibility mode.
Then, Application Pools would not be available.

If you are not running IIS 6.0 in IIS 5.0 compatibility mode, you can try one of two things:

1. Uninstall and reinstall IIS
or
2. Install W2K3 into a fresh partition.

Uninstalling/reinstalling IIS isn't too painful.
You can get that done inside of a half hour.

re:.
!> or a folder for "Default SMTP Virtual Server"

That doesn't have to be there. It only shows if you have installed the SMTP server.

re:
!> I DO have a need for a domain controller.

If you do, that's fine.

You *can* run IIS in a domain controller, provided you run ASP.NET
as a custom account, following the details in the link I provided.

What you should *not* do is run ASP.NET as the System account,
even if you think you're sufficiently protected.




Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
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