Access the IIS metabase

Posted on February 18, 2014 by erictummers

For quality purposes we add a new person to our project. The problems found will be documented for future reference. Here is the first problem.

Opening the solution in visual studio would not load the web project. In the output window is an error message:

LoginPortal.Web.csproj : error : The Web Application Project LoginPortal.Web is configured to use IIS. Unable to access the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine.

The solution (windows 8.1) is to grant access to the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\inetsrv\config folder by browsing to it.

References

Stackoverflow – Error – Unable to access the IIS metabase

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4 Responses to Access the IIS metabase

sparksterz (@sparksterz) says:

October 13, 2014 at 4:35 pm

Thanks for this. Ran into a very similar problem and this solved it. Otherwise I was going to need to spend a day uninstalling and re-installing everything on our build box in order and I did not look forward to it!

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Mr.Jackrith says:

October 20, 2014 at 4:56 am

Thank you, Eric. You made my day.

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Samu says:

June 14, 2016 at 7:26 am

My inetsrv folder is empty. This solution cannot be done.

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- erictummers says:
  
  June 14, 2016 at 12:28 pm
  
  Are you using IIS or IISExpress?
  
  Reply