by Prasanna Vignesh
18. September 2007 07:04
I had to reformat my Windows XP Professional development machine yesterday and reinstall everything, including IIS and VS 2005. I thought I had worked cut the procedure to get ASP.NET up and running on a local machine, but I am setting this error when I try to open a web app on the local IIS installation: "Failed to access IIS metabase".
Possible Cause:-
When you install IIS AFTER .NET 2.0 framework, the rights of the ASPNET user had not been set correctly.
Resolution
Repair (Uninstall if repair does not work for you) .NET Framework 2.0
Simply run the following from command line to reset the IIS registry settings for aspnet user. Usually framework directory for .Net Framework 2.0 resides under C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
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