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Thursday, June 23, 2011

IIS Admin Service service terminated due to speficified not found

I was not able browse any site in the local machine and finally found that IIS admin Service is stopped.
I have tried to start the IIS admin service but I have received the following Error Message.
"IIS Admin Service service terminated due to speficified not found". 

Cause:
             For starting IIS admin service required two XML files such Metabase.XML and MBSchema.XML. If any one of the files missed or crashed, the IIS admin service wont be start.
 
Solution:
              In my case metabase.xml file missed in the following location C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv. So I have restored metabase.xml file from the following location C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\History.