November 2008 Archive on Scott Hanselman's Blog

Web Platform Installer now supports XP - And the Master Plan continues

Remind me to tell you some time why the IIS team is so evil clever. It' cool to see the first steps of a master plan to make things awesome start to come to fruition.  I've said over and over that IIS7 is rocking sweet and once you start using it...

Fixed: "Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) is stopping because it encountered an error."

I'm not yet clear what I did, but I'm blogging it so it can be found if someone else has this issue. For whatever reason, last week both of my Vista 64-bit machines suddenly stopped being able to start IIS (Internet Information Server). The service just...

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