IIS Metadat - There has to be someone w/an answer

On Apr 6, 6:36 pm, "Joseph G. Earl \(CD30A}" <jgearl2... RemoveThis @qwest.net>
wrote:
> Hello Group -
>
> We recently did some installs, and out IIS environment was , in a sene,
> trashed on every system this install (xxExpress) from Microsoft was
> conducted. Restoring the operational state was to no avail - thus this
> 'ASP-ination' did something outide of the object graph to which a backup can
> be restored. Does anyone know how a reconstruction of IIS be conducted
> without having to renstall, sadly often the only Microsoft solution (yea the
> only solution ever recommnded by those who have nauht). I would gadly and
> wiely publish anyones insghts, as all I can find are some forms of the
> problemsad n solutionas (haing read plus or minus some 375 posting
>
> THANK_you so much.


If you want to "reconstruct" IIS after intentionally trashing it by
running an arbitrary program installation, the easiest way is to
reinstall IIS. The reason you do not find any information on the
"default" values for 1000+ settings in IIS necessary for
reconstruction is because even if you know that information it is
useless.

When you want to "reconstruct" IIS without reinstalling, it usually
means that you have some existing system state that you want to
preserve. My question to you is this -- do you even know what that
existing state is, and how do you plan on reconciling that state with
the "default" value of 1000+ settings in IIS, correctly, to end up
with the proper result prior to the corruption? Unless you know what
is going on, that information is simply not published because the user
usually does not know nor care about that detail.

It is way easier to have a backup of IIS configuration and simply roll
back the configuration file than to know how to "reconstruct" IIS
configuration. One take-away for you should be that you should fix
your backup scheme to backup the right object graph.

So, I do not see anything "sad" about any existing solution, including
the "Microsoft solution" - it seems like the most reasonable to me. In
comparison, your request for information on how to "reconstruct IIS"
seems way less reasonable.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
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