Windows Vista SP1 Disables IIS?

Posted 02/22/2008
Filed under: Windows |

I just installed Windows Vista SP1, and after reboot, IIS was disabled.  I had to go into administrative tools Internet Information Services Manager, Right click on the computer, select start, then move the the default site and select start.

7 comments so far

  1. Sérgio Agostinho on 03/11/2008

    Luck you. I had to enable two windows services:
    * Windows Process Activation Service
    * World Wide Web Publishing Service
    (And it is still not working properly…)

  2. Jim on 03/19/2008

    I had the same experience. I didn’t even think to check until my wife complained that her website was down. Bad update from Microsoft.

    I only had to activate WWW Publishing then start the websites, and it worked. I didn’t think I’d have to check to make sure all services were updated after installing the service pack.

  3. Nik on 06/02/2008

    Same thing happened for me. I only had to start WWW Publishing to get IIS going but my ASP.NET sites were screwed.

    Got a compilation error along the lines of CS0016: Could not write to output file ‘c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\portal\7305ae6e\118db251\App_Code.l-1fu8gb.dll’ — ‘Access is denied. ‘

    Had to add NETWORK SERVICE to the folder C:/windows/temp to get it going.

  4. Javier on 06/24/2008

    Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, I have many days looking for a solutions of my asp.net applications! I added network service to c:\windows\…\Framework\v2.0…\Temporary but I didn’t know to c:\windows\temp.

  5. nick on 07/08/2008

    Thanks everyone, I’ve being looking for solution for past 2 days. I’ve just started using a new pc, clean install with SP 1 and suddenly I’ve being receiving is annoying problem. I add network service to both folders c:\windows\temp and c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files now it’s all working again.
    Thanks once again.

  6. Mike on 07/26/2008

    I am absolutely shocked at the havoc that this update has caused on my dev machine. Not only did I run into the problems described above, having to start both services manually, then going through the great “improved user interface” that is IIS7 to start the website again, only to be faced with the same compilation errors as above. I added the Network Service accounts and got it working fine, but now my customized SlideShowPro to Flickr connector falls apart on me refusing to load (using FlickrNet API). I am going to have to spend ages now trying to find out which magnificent improvement Microsoft has come up with that stopped the .NET app from working…

    I was dissapointed by Vista, but I am shocked by this “Service” Pack release even more…

  7. Santosh on 10/04/2008

    Hi guys,
    I got the ‘CS0016: Could not write to output file…’ after I installed vista sp1. I added the Network Service user as well as the IIS_IUSRS to both c:\temp and Temporary ASP.net folders but I am still getting the same error. Both windows services mentioned above are enabled. What could be the problem?


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