Corrupted IIS 6.0 Metabase?

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Server: SBS 2003

With exchange server running, all of the usual suspects EXCEPT DHCP,
which is being served by the network router.

While troubleshooting a problem with OWA authentications, I discover
that the World Wide Web Publishing service will not respond to an
IISRESET command; it just hangs in starting mode. All other functions
work fine, IISADMIN; I just cant get the W3SVC to start.

For when I go back into the office in a couple of hours to start to
fight this one, are there any "usual suspects" that I should
investigate? In the event viewer, I do remember seeing some 7035 and
7036 events.

If it is a corrupted IIS 6.0 metabase, I was reading about copying the
historical meta file back to the working directory - how does one go
about doing that?

I also have a backup of the System State made last friday; would that
be an easier restore? The wife of my CEO likes to Remote Desktop in
from Hawaii to do the books (its a small office, with SBS 2003 and 4
clients).

I also have read about setting the 6 or so IIS services to a manual
start and then reboot with the NET START command to see if that does
anything... Everything appears normal, except the W3SVC fails to start
- kinda like a car that will not turn over. Admittedly, I am not the
most proficient at IIS troubleshooting...

Today, especially, I really dont have the time to remove/reinstall IIS
and Exchange server!

TIA!

Douglas Snow

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