Creation of virtual directory failed Unable to access IIS metabase - tried about 100 answers

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I'm not fortunate to give modern Operating System "currently" and so my current situation is

Window 7 Enterprise I do have admin access
Visual Studio 2013 , 2015
IIS 7.5 / IIS Express 10

I have tried uninstalling IIS and IIS express but I end up with issues around permissions with the IIS metabase. I have tried many solutions and hacks and this is the longest I have ever spent on something with IIS and permissions.

I do have a feeling that a lot of this is related to the domain that I'm on, along with %USERProfile% and settings that are to network drives that I do not even have access to.

I think it is fixed with a registry path change – Tom Stickel Jun 23 '16 at 18:49 — Tom Stickel, Jun 23 '16 at 18:49
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=iis 136,181 results – Tom Stickel Jun 23 '16 at 22:30 — Tom Stickel, Jun 23 '16 at 22:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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I had the same issue on Windows 2012.

It was a file access issue to %systemroot%\System32\inetsrv\config

Take a look at this post by GordonK2004 (highest rated one)

Error - Unable to access the IIS metabase

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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I tried that... I ended up fixing with changing various registry paths that pointed towards bad network paths. thx – Tom Stickel Jun 23 '16 at 20:25
Worked for me when VS 2015 failed to load a project. – hector-j-rivas Jan 09 '17 at 20:20

Creation of virtual directory failed Unable to access IIS metabase - tried about 100 answers

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