Service Unavailable – On a Windows 2003 SP1 server.

By | May 1, 2007

Today, after installing a VM with Windows 2003 ee, SP1 and IIS, I got ‘Service Unavailable’ when i tried to see it the webserver worked as planned.

After quite a bit of googleing, I found a working solution.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899965

  1. In Start -> Run type “dcomcnfg”
  2. Right Click “IIS Admin Service” under Component Services -> Computers -> My Computer -> DCOM Config
  3. Choose “Security”
  4. In the section “Launch and Activation Permissions” click “Customize”.
  5. Add the local user “Network Service”
  6. Set the permission so “Network Service” is allowed to:
    • Local Launch
    • Remote Launch
    • Local Activation
    • Remote Activation
  7. Restart the server or restart the WWW service.

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