SP 4 and IIS

[Tavish Muldoon]

Hello,

I have a Win2000 (SP3) machine running IIS 5.0 . If I patch to SP4,
it screws up my IIS - so it is not there. IIS is the original version
that came with the Windows 2000 Setup CD.

If I uninstall the SP4 patch, it works fine.

How do I go about patching this to SP4 - or do I have to patch IIS or
do something else to it first?

Thanks,

Tmuld.

 

[Fabio]

turn IIS off during patching, if possible...

 

[George Hester]

I believe it messed up mine as well. I have a virtual directory that I give the Administrator Read and Write permissions and IUSR_MachineName has only Read. Now before I go on let me just say that I know the necessary permissions on the Web for this server. It has been doing just fine for quite a while now. So pardon me if my descriptions above are not comprehensive. The point is IUSR_MachienName does not have Write permissions to that Virtual Directory.

Now when I Check the Server Extensions (FrontPage 2000 Extensions) I get a problem which says I need to enable Read AND Write permissions to this virtual directory. Like hell I am going to do that. This is not true for all my virtual directories just the My Webs and one other. All the others are without issue.

Yes this was a result of SP4. Oh by the way, the server indicates in no way that there is any trouble. So I ignore it.

 

[Tavish Muldoon]

Thanks Fabio,

But how do I turn off IIS without deleting it.

Just kill the IIS service (inetinfo.exe)?

Thanks,

Tmuld.

 

[Fabio]

Yes. However, thats just part of it. Ill post here a nice summary by Rob of
the IIS Newsgroup:


"The Reliable Restart feature on W2k will automatically
restart IIS (inetinfo.exe) if you kill it.

I think the following is a 'correct' way to
stop the process, at a command prompt, type:
iisreset /stop

which will attempt to stop your internet services.
If it succeeds then the inetinfo process will go away.
If it does not, then disable auto restart and use kill:
iisreset /disable
kill ientinfo.exe

The iisreset /disable will prevent the Reliable Restart
feature from restarting ientinfo. iisreset /enable will
re-enable auto restart again.

You can find "kill" (and tlist which lists process ids)
on the W2k cd in:
\SUPPORT\TOOLS\SUPPORT.CAB

WinZip can easily extract them. Just drop them in any
folder. They do not need any special DLLs etc, but you
may want them on your Path.

The Release Notes of IIs 5.0 under Performance and Logging
says (in part):
"Stopping Internet Services - The Reliable Restart feature
of the Windows 2000 Service Control Manager will
automatically restart Internet services if the Inetinfo.exe
process terminates abnormally, or if you use Windows Task
Manager or Kill.exe to stop Internet services. If you want
to stop Internet services, you must disable Reliable
Restart." It goes on to say how to disable restart in the
GUI, but the above command line is easier."

(http://groups.google.ch/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=10de01c1
d941%245c733400%2439ef2ecf%40TKMSFTNGXA08&rnum=9&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522tur
n%2Boff%2BIIS%2522%2Bwindows%2B2000%2Bhow%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26o
e%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D10de01c1d941%25245c733400%252439ef2ecf%2540TKMSFTNGXA08%2
6rnum%3D9)


Hope this helps. Regards,

Fabio