Tag Archives: metabase

Repro metabase COM Exceptions

Posted on July 22, 2015 by erictummers

Our project uses IIS to host custom web applications. We received an issue: when creating a web application some COM Exception is logged. To reproduce the issue we created a console application that connects to IIS metabase. The Find method … Continue reading →

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Repro metabase corruption

Posted on July 15, 2015 by erictummers

Our project uses IIS to host custom web applications. We received an issue where sometimes the application pool wouldn’t start because of an corrupt configuration. To reproduce the issue we run the software to install the web application. This way … Continue reading →

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Lessons learned while solving a software issue on a client’s laptop

Posted on June 17, 2015 by erictummers

“This laptop has the latest version of the software and it’s not working”. That is how it ended up on my desk. After two days of debugging, crashing and reading log files I solved the problem. I’m hired to get … Continue reading →

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Disable LoadUserProfile on IIS Applicationpool

Posted on May 27, 2015 by erictummers

We’re using IIS Metabase (6.0) to administer IIS from our application. For IIS 7 and above we use the IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility Windows feature. After introducing the creation of an application pool per web application we … Continue reading →

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ApplicationPool creation in Metabase with Csharp

Posted on January 14, 2015 by erictummers

In our project we create IIS application pools from code. For this we connect to the metabase with DirectoryEntry. This is COM and the exceptions are ridiculous somewhat cryptic. Below is code to create an Application Pool. The comments describe … Continue reading →

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