Re: IIS6.x and IISADMPWD and KB 833734

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From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:00:36 +0100

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:39:55 -0700, Rowdy Yates
<rowdy_yates2@remove.lycos.com> wrote:

>thanx for the help paul. will look at the locations you mentioned. :-)
>
>well, i am working on a pilot project on sharepoint portal server 2k3. it's
>setup & working. it's running on IIS 6.x. pretty neat product. i have to
>muck around with it a bit 'cause i don't have an AD network environment
>yet. it's all stand alone right now.
>
>anyways, long story short. trying to get it setup to allow users to change
>their own passwords - implementing IISADMPWD. there are a few articles on
>it on the web. i used IISADMPWD before on IIS 5.x - never really had probs.
>on IIS 6.x - it's being a bugger.
>
>some of the symptoms i am having are listed in KB833734. i go the patches
>from MS and applied them. still didn't fix it.
>
>i get to the default passwrd account change page. but the password changes
>are not applied to the account. i think i got it misfigured somewhere. will
>need to do some surfing.....
>
>the MS support dude gave me two zips. one had newer asp's the other had pdb
>files. what do the *.pdb files do?
>
>
>Rowdy Yates, MCSE

Rowdy,

Did you set it up as per this KB article ?

IISADMPWD Virtual Directory Is Not Created During a Default Install of
IIS 6.0
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555071

PDB files are used in debugging, I'm not sure why you would be sent
those files with a hotfix. What documentation/instructions did you
receive with the hotfix files ?

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE