re: Shared configuration and password expiration.

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:16 GMT

Great post!

I was having a slightly different problem - when I entered the path to the shared config configuration GUI, I accidentlly included a space at the end (I was cut and pasting from a file). That extra space broke the path, and rendered me unable to start inetmgr with the same symptoms as mentioned in the post. Editing redirection.config to remove the space fixed the problem.

For the search engines, the exact message I was getting was

c:\windows\system32>c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd list config -section:system.webServer/rewrite/globalRules

ERROR ( message:Configuration error

Filename: \\?\UNC\machinename\arr \applicationHost.config

Line Number: 0

Description: Cannot read configuration file

. )

there was an error when trying to connect. Do you want to retype your credentials and try again?

Error: Cannot read configuration file

administration.config