MS update caused problem.

Hi David,

IIS Admin Service is running perfectly. The problem occurs when I try to start WWW, FTP and SMTP.

The size of the file %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\inetsrv\metabase.bin is 24k.

What do I need to do now, Please Help.

Thanks in Advance.
JP.
 >> Stay informed about: MS update caused problem. 

That size does not look right to me -- it is way too small (it should be
about 200K+). I think you have corruption/truncation of your configuration
file, and unless you have a backup of this file, you'll have to reinstall
IIS to regenerate and re-configure everything in the UI.

If you did not do any Windows Update related to IIS, I do not think Windows
Update caused this problem. Since IIS reads configuration from disk to
memory and never uses the file on disk until it shuts down, you may have
been running with a corrupt configuration file on disk for some time without
knowing it. Many things could have corrupted that file, including bad hard
drive sectors, crashing IIS while it was shutting down, powering off the PC
unexpectedly, etc. It only looks like Windows Update is the cause because
it made you reboot the machine, which then exposes the corrupt configuration
when IIS next tried to read it.

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"JP" <john_p.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:CE999B8D-E093-4368-8009-58F41F779C65@microsoft.com...
Hi David,

IIS Admin Service is running perfectly. The problem occurs when I try to
start WWW, FTP and SMTP.

The size of the file %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\inetsrv\metabase.bin is 24k.

What do I need to do now, Please Help.

Thanks in Advance.
JP.
 >> Stay informed about: MS update caused problem. 

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:21:04 -0700, "JP" <john_p.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:

 >Recently I did windows update on my machine. After the update, I am not able to start World wide web publishing services, SMTP and <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://FTP." target="_blank">FTP.</a> When I try to start WWW, it gives me error as follows.
 >
 >Could not start the world wide web publishing service on local computer.
 >The service did not return an error. This could be an internal windows error or an internal service error. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator.
 >
<font color=purple> >I am getting the same error when I tried to start SMTP and <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://FTP.</font" target="_blank">FTP.</font</a>>
 >I am using windows 2000 Prof. operating system.
 >
 >How do I fix them. Please Help Me.

First, try uninstalling the update. Se4cond, check the event log for
error messages that may indicate the actual issue.

Jeff<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: MS update caused problem.