Repairing IIS 8.5 installation on Server 2012

Tom Milliken 1 Reputation point
2022-09-24T19:48:05.577+00:00

Is there a way to repair IIS 8.5 on Server 2012 without uninstalling and reinstalling? We are running a production web server and sending XML requests seems to have stopped working on our server and I cannot figure out what the issue is. If anyone has any suggestions for troubleshooting XML requests on IIS, I would really appreciate it. Our site is running classic ASP and JavaScript.

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  1. T. Kujala 8,706 Reputation points
    2022-09-25T07:55:01.87+00:00

    Hi @Tom Milliken ,

    I think the easiest way to achieve the goal is create a backup and then reinstall IIS and then restore your backup. If you can get a more detailed information about the errors, it can probably solve the issue without reinstalling.

    Open cmd.exe.

    Navigate to %windir%\system32\inetsrv.

    Execute following command to back up configuration:

    appcmd.exe add backup <backupname>.

    Open the %windir%\system32\inetsrv\backup directory and copy the backup folder to a local folder.

    Reinstall IIS.

    Open the local folder and copy the backup folder to the %windir%\system32\inetsrv\backup directory.

    Execute following command to back up configuration:

    appcmd.exe restore backup <backupname>

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