Corrupt metabase with no backup

A Windows Server 2003 SBS server experienced a power outage. That apparently
triggered a corruption in the IIS metabase. As a result, no service using
any IIS features will work (e.g. Exchange, POP3, etc.). If no metabase
backup exists, what are the appropriate next steps to get this system back to
fully functional?

chkdsk was already run with no change. I have read where we can
uninstall/reinstall IIS. But everything indicates we need to restore the
metabase which we don't have. Help!

Have you checked (about the backups)?

IIS6.0 automatically makes backups at various points. Check in the:
c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\history folder - you may be pleasantly surprised


If you have no backups at all, then you'd need to reinstall various
components to have the metabase configured as it should have been (e.g. WSS,
Exchange etc)

And now would be a good time to start looking at making backups! (and
getting a UPS)

Cheers
Ken

"Quo Vadis" <quovadis RemoveThis @news.postalias> wrote in message
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>A Windows Server 2003 SBS server experienced a power outage. That
>apparently
> triggered a corruption in the IIS metabase. As a result, no service using
> any IIS features will work (e.g. Exchange, POP3, etc.). If no metabase
> backup exists, what are the appropriate next steps to get this system back
> to
> fully functional?
>
> chkdsk was already run with no change. I have read where we can
> uninstall/reinstall IIS. But everything indicates we need to restore the
> metabase which we don't have. Help!