Internet Information Services (IIS6) Manager

I've been using the Internet Information Services (IIS6)
Manager successfully over the last few months on a
standard Windows XP (SP2) Professional workstation,
however it has recently stopped working, reporting
that "The specified module cannot be found".

The utility is being used to remotely administer a
Windows 2003 IIS server.

I've tried un-installing and re-installing but have had
no success, and have had no luck in trying to track down
the problem through any of the online resources

Does anyone have any ideas?

Leon
Mon Oct 04 03:59:04 CDT 2004

Sean wrote:
> I've been using the Internet Information Services (IIS6)
> Manager successfully over the last few months on a
> standard Windows XP (SP2) Professional workstation,
> however it has recently stopped working, reporting
> that "The specified module cannot be found".
>
> The utility is being used to remotely administer a
> Windows 2003 IIS server.
>
> I've tried un-installing and re-installing but have had
> no success, and have had no luck in trying to track down
> the problem through any of the online resources
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Did you try installing the snap in from the XP CD?

1) In control panel, load up 'Add / remove programs' and click 'Add / remove
windows components' in the left hand side box
2) Highlight 'Internet information services' and click 'details'
3) Make sure 'Internet information services snap in' is checked.
4) Click OK, then Next, etc

And then see if you can manually add the snap in into an mmc console:

1) Start / run: mmc
2) File / 'Add / remove snap in'
3) Click add
4) Double-click 'Internet information services'
5) Click close, then OK
6) Right-click on the 'internet information services' node in the tree and
select 'connect' to connect to your remote machine.

See if that works.

tdevere
Mon Oct 04 15:31:00 CDT 2004

I would be interested in seeing what a filemon run at the same time you try
to load the mmc would show us. It sounds as if we're having a problem
loading a dll. Use Filmon to try to determine if there's a file missing.
Or, if filemon shows the dll's are all sucessfully accessed, then try
manually registering the dll's...

Note: what happened to make this all stop working? What changed?


Thank you,

Tony DeVere [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
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David
Wed Oct 06 00:07:42 CDT 2004

FYI:
Leon, the user is using the IIS6 MMC Snapin from an add-on pack, which
installs on XP Pro and allows it to remotely managed IIS6 servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9c1fb79-c903-4842-9f6c-9db93643fdb7&displaylang=en

So, having the user reinstall from XP CD isn't going to do a whole lot of
good.

I would personally run the DEPENDS.EXE tool on the IIS Snapin DLL
(iisui.dll) or run FileMon (www.sysinternals.com) to see what file is
missing (which will then cause "The specified module cannot be found" ).

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IIS
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"Leon Mayne [MVP]" <l.rmv.mayne@uea.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:uSNjmBfqEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
Sean wrote:
> I've been using the Internet Information Services (IIS6)
> Manager successfully over the last few months on a
> standard Windows XP (SP2) Professional workstation,
> however it has recently stopped working, reporting
> that "The specified module cannot be found".
>
> The utility is being used to remotely administer a
> Windows 2003 IIS server.
>
> I've tried un-installing and re-installing but have had
> no success, and have had no luck in trying to track down
> the problem through any of the online resources
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Did you try installing the snap in from the XP CD?

1) In control panel, load up 'Add / remove programs' and click 'Add / remove
windows components' in the left hand side box
2) Highlight 'Internet information services' and click 'details'
3) Make sure 'Internet information services snap in' is checked.
4) Click OK, then Next, etc

And then see if you can manually add the snap in into an mmc console:

1) Start / run: mmc
2) File / 'Add / remove snap in'
3) Click add
4) Double-click 'Internet information services'
5) Click close, then OK
6) Right-click on the 'internet information services' node in the tree and
select 'connect' to connect to your remote machine.

See if that works.

Leon
Wed Oct 06 03:13:56 CDT 2004

David Wang [Msft] wrote:
> Leon, the user is using the IIS6 MMC Snapin from an add-on pack, which
> installs on XP Pro and allows it to remotely managed IIS6 servers.

OK, I assumed the default XP snap-in worked with IIS6. Thanks for the heads
up.