We had a Intranet site set up to ship to a customer. Had NT4 Server,
IIs & our App all running. We then Ghosted a copy of the drive onto CD
& tried to Ghost it back onto the same machine. After all that (which
has worked in every other bit of software), IIs simply stopped working
with service would not start messages.
At the time I was wondering if there was some weird copy protection
scheme in place but I could not think of anything. It was more than a
year ago so I can't recall exactly want we did to fix the problem but I
recall Ghosting a clean copy of NT4 Server on & copying the web site
back on - which did not work. I suspect in the end we re-formatted the
drive & re-installed everything from scratch.
Have you checked with MS? MSDN? Remember we buy MS products for the
great support ;-)
Grant Black
Software Developer
SmartMove (NZ) Ltd
Phone: +64 9 361-0219 extn 719
Fax : +64 9 361-0211
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:13 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: rather off-topic, longish IIS crie de couer
>
>
> Hi folks,
> I sometimes wonder WHY I ever started using IIS. But it's rather
> too late now.
>
> We've got a busy server with a number of sites on it, and we were
> just about to replace its system drive with a fresh one, all
> carefully built up and nurtured on a separate machine, with all the
> right software, and configs, and sites and so on.
>
> BUT, about 18 hours away from shift-to-operational-machine
> time, the new drive's IIS has just stopped working! It's an NT SP5
> IIS, and was working fine, starting fine and generally doing all it
> should.
>
> NOW, it gives this error in the event log: "IIS Admin service did
> not start because... service is not installed", and none of the
> related Admin/Web/FTP services are started.
>
> HOWEVER, we can manually start all three of the above and the
> Web sites, at least, are working (haven't checked FTP). That
> said, though all three services are active, trying to run the
> Internet
> Service Manager causes 16 bit NTVDM WOW errors complaining
> about nothing intelligible (all kinds of repeating error messages,
> you get the picture).
>
> In other words, the system seems to be fully viable except the
> Web services don't start themselves, and can't be reconfigured
> cos the Service Manager won't run. Great.
>
> So far, we've tried obvious/conservative things like
> starting/stopping/rebooting/power-cycling/copying Inetmgr.exe/dll
> across from another machine etc. etc. But of course, we don't
> really know what may be dead, let alone why. SO, for those who
> have been through the IIS hoops a few times:
>
> Recommendations please on the most conservative route to take
> to get IIS operational again, e.g.
>
> * reinstalling SP5, but are we sure that won't zap the Metabase
> for the Web sites?)
>
> * reinstalling NT Option Pack 4 (*then* SP5, *sigh*)? I HATE
> IIS/option pack installations, they usually take four uninstalls and
> six installs to "take", and almost never manage to preserve the
> metabase through that process. (Obviously, I try to avoid the
> uninstall and equally obviously, I get forced to do it when installs
> object about stuff already there. Repeatedly. Tiresomely. After 20
> minutes of grinding through the install process.
>
> So you see why I'm asking for conservative suggestions, else
> weeks of work getting that drive to exact-mirror-of-existing-
> operational-server state could be down the tubes.
>
> Ideas, suggestions, sympathies gratefully accepted <g>.
>
> Gee, I got through all that without saying a Bad Word. Too tired, I
> guess... <g>
>
> 'best.
>
> cheers,
> peter
>
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