"The mind of a Mad Tech!"

If you ever try to access frontpage extensions on a windows 2003 server and you get the following error;

Unable to access configuration for Microsoft Internet Information Server.

You will need to do the following;

1. Open the Server Administration page.

2. In the list of virtual servers, next to the virtual server you want to uninstall, click Administration.

3. Under Administration, click Uninstall FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions.

4. If you want to uninstall FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions completely, including the metadata about your Web site, next to Full Uninstall, click Yes.

5.Click Uninstall.

Once you do this, you will need to reinstall them. I have them located at my site;

http://keithdmitchell.com/downloads/fpse02_x86_ENG.exe

Download this and install it on the windows 2003 server.

All fixed!

*Update* Thanks to Phillp for this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314480
To resolve this problem and use the Settings button to open the correct Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and port for the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Web site, use the SetAdminPort operation of the Owsadm.exe utility. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open a command prompt.
2. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER
cd Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\bin
where Drive is the letter of the disk drive where your Program Files folder is located.
3. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
owsadm.exe -o setadminport -p 1234
NOTE: In this example, replace port number 1234 with a random number between 1025 and 32767, so that it does not conflict with other Windows services.

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