Hi,

We installed Service Pack 1 on our Windows Server 2003 Ent Ed. box and now
IIS refuses to start! The IIS Admin service runs, but the WWW Service won't
start. It consistently fails with a b-s error code that Windows doesn't
recognize, and I can't find a reference to online.

I've removed IIS and reinstalled it.

I rolled back the Service Pack Install. And even reinstalled it when that
didn't work.

I've tried damn near everything, and I am STUCK.

PLEASE, somebody more versed in IIS admin, lend me a hand, I have no idea at
this point!

Re: HELP - Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2003 broke IIS! by David

David
Fri Nov 18 19:40:25 CST 2005

It would be helpful to share the b-s error code that you do not recognize.

Without additional information provided, I can only recommend to rebuild the
server since you have already done a couple of other destructive
reinstallation actions that render any investigation useless. Exact sequence
to reproduce an issue matters, and without a sequence, I can only recommend
to rebuild starting from SP1.

Most of the times that I see upgrades fail, it is related to some customer
related configuration of security-hardening steps.

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"Clifford Oravec" <coravec@automotiveresearchcorp.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

We installed Service Pack 1 on our Windows Server 2003 Ent Ed. box and now
IIS refuses to start! The IIS Admin service runs, but the WWW Service won't
start. It consistently fails with a b-s error code that Windows doesn't
recognize, and I can't find a reference to online.

I've removed IIS and reinstalled it.

I rolled back the Service Pack Install. And even reinstalled it when that
didn't work.

I've tried damn near everything, and I am STUCK.

PLEASE, somebody more versed in IIS admin, lend me a hand, I have no idea at
this point!