Error - Unable to access the IIS metabase

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After installing Visual Studio 2012 and opening my solution I get a series of errors in this form      The Web Application Project Foo is configured to use IIS    Unable to access the IIS Metabase  You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine    I get this for each of our web applications       Things I have tried    Running Visual Studio as Administrator  Running aspnet regiis exe -ga MyUserName  Running aspnet regiis exe -i   These seem to be common solutions for this problem but I have not had any success with them        Is there anything else I can try to do

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In Visual Studio 2015  I changed UseIIS in  csproj file to false and it worked for me     lt UseIIS gt False lt  UseIIS gt

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Create a shortcut to the  devenv exe  select the  Run as administrator  option for the shortcut doble click on the short cut and reopen your project

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In addition to the answer by  nologo  I also had to use IIS  So I changed the    lt UseIIS gt True lt  UseIIS gt    to  False  first    Opened the solution and ensured that the project could be loaded  Close solution and that instance of Visual Studio Change the value to  True  again Open the solution  This time  I didn t get any error warning  I could also run with Ctrl F5 or F5 without any problem while my project was mapped to an IIS website

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Changing this key worked for me   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer User Shell Folders Personal  The location didn t exist

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Create a new WebSite  after error go to folder where you created a project  in a txt app open the  csproj file  find this tag   lt UseIIS gt   and change  false  to  true   in lines bellow find the tag   lt IISUrl gt   then put the iis url find url in iis   your tags must be like this    lt WebProjectProperties gt         lt UseIIS gt True lt  UseIIS gt         lt AutoAssignPort gt True lt  AutoAssignPort gt         lt DevelopmentServerPort gt 0 lt  DevelopmentServerPort gt         lt DevelopmentServerVPath gt   lt  DevelopmentServerVPath gt         lt IISUrl gt http   localhost yourIISAppAlias        lt  IISUrl gt         lt NTLMAuthentication gt False lt  NTLMAuthentication gt         lt UseCustomServer gt False lt  UseCustomServer gt         lt CustomServerUrl gt         lt  CustomServerUrl gt         lt SaveServerSettingsInUserFile gt False lt  SaveServerSettingsInUserFile gt       lt  WebProjectProperties gt

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I had a similar problem  Visual Studio would not load any web projects and showed the error  creation of virtual directory  lt myproj myport gt  failed  Unable to access the IIS metabase   In my case it was actually IISExpress that was at the root of the problem  Right clicking on IIS Express in Programs and Features in the control panel and choosing repair fixed the issue in less than two minutes

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Navigating to folder   systemroot  System32 inetsrv config presents a security dialog  Click continue and this may resolve the issue  This has worked on two separate Win 10 VS 2017 IIS machines

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I have had two seperate types of problem lead to this error  and thought I d share     1  The directory was on an network share and due to UAC restrictions  was     unable to be accessed -- even when running as an admin  2  The directory was on a drive that didn t exist      Both of these stem from an unfortunate  imo  choice by MS to put things in the Documents or My Document directory  combinee with really lousy error messages   In both of the above cases the fundamental problem was that the IISExpress Config file goes in My Documents  and it either didn t exist or couldn t be accessed

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You can solve this problem by actually unchecking the IIS tools in your Windows feature list  Then  repair your Visual Studio 2013 installation and make sure Web Developer is checked  It will install IIS 8 with which VS will work nicely

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I also had a similar problem  My solution is an extension to the answer  Run as admin  which I hope someone might find useful   I was running VS2012 and almost every time I had to do the Right Click  Run As Administrator  I got tired of this so instead I went into its properties on the shortcut  clicked advanced  and then clicked the  Run as Administrator  option  Now VS2012 always runs as administrator whenever I open it from that shortcut   The from that shortcut bit is important  I proceeded to branch my project  and download the branch to a new local folder  Then  when I opened it from the shortcut I had no problem  But if I went directly into the folder  and ran the project locally without the shortcut  it did not run as administrator and I got this error   Once I opened VS2012 as usual first  then using File Open Project It worked again no problem   because I was running as admin   But I wasn t running as admin when I opened the solution using windows file manager   The other suggestions seem somewhat extreme  but this is pretty simple so I would tend to give this a try first   Hope this was helpful

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I just had the same issue with me today  And I found it annoying  Though I have other two websites already under development from the same IIS but still was not able to create new site  Strange  but I did this    Delete the site from IIS Create new site  give it a name  new site  Select Application Pool other than the site name itself  So it wont be messing up with default settings  Keep IP  unassigned  if you are running it from same machine give it some unused port Run Visual Studio as  Run as Administrator  by right-clicking on VS executable shortcut   You are done    You do not need to turn off re-install anything other than what I have stated since it works   Let me know if anybody had the same issue just like me and solved the same way  I think it was not the issue but a wrong way of creating website on localhost which Visual Studio rejects to open   I hope this will help newbies

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I just had this issue today and I found that I didn t open VS as  Run as Administrator   After doing this  I was able to publish the Service

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IIS Express Users - Using My Documents on a Network Share  If your IIS Express application config is located on a network drive  ensure that the drive is mapped and connected in My Computer   I was facing this issue and when I re-mapped the network drives in My Computer the issue was resolved

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I had the same problem after Adding feature from this link afterward I followed this article the issue was gone

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I had the same problem  For me it was that I was using the same my documents as on a previous Windows installation  Simply removing the IISExpress folder from my documents did the trick

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If you are working on a project which does not require the use of IIS  then a workaround to open the project with this error is to simply right click on the unloaded project and click edit  search for    lt ProjectExtensions gt       lt VisualStudio gt         lt FlavorProperties GUID    gt           lt WebProjectProperties gt             lt UseIIS gt True lt  UseIIS gt           lt  WebProjectProperties gt         lt  FlavorProperties gt       lt  VisualStudio gt     lt  ProjectExtensions gt   lt  Project gt    and set USEIIS to false   lt UseIIS gt False lt  UseIIS gt    reload the project by right clicking on it after saving changes

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I came across this today and fixed the problem by removing the IISUrl from the Project file    Right click project Click Edit Delete the following line     lt IISUrl gt http   localhost xxxxx  lt  IISUrl gt   Reload project Now add a new IIS virtual directory by right clicking Project   Properties   Web and selecting Use Local IIS Web Server  Uncheck Use IIS Express   and clicking the Create Virtual Directory button

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I tried everything above   The credit goes to all of the responses above   Having tried all of the suggestions on their own  I just assembled this combination of suggestions in an order that made sense to me   Note my Documents folder is on a shared drive   The subst IISExpress stuff is not applicable unless you re in the same boat    Configure VS to run as admin Uninstall IIS via Add Remove Programs  Windows Features Reboot Run WinRAR or something similar as admin and archive C  windows system32 inetsrv  Run cmd as admin and rmdir  s c  windows system32 inetsrv  to completely remove all traces of the last install   Leave elevated cmd prompt open for later  Reinstall IIS with IIS 6 Metabase compatibility  doubt this was necessary  Leave Default AppPool and Default Website as-is  I had previously deleted both  Ran C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -ga MYDOMAIN scottt732 Ran C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -i   Also  because my Documents folder is on a share drive  I was having IIS Express issues   I don t use like IIS Express  but Visual Studio complained about it    From elevated cmd prompt  ran subst U  c  Temp   Created C  Temp Documents  and copied the IISExpress folder from my U drive  Created CustomUserHome key in HKCU Software Microsoft IISExpress with C  Temp Documents IISExpress This allowed me to get Visual Studio to open my web projects and edit the properties   I tweaked the projects to store web server settings in a user file and adjusted it to use a Custom URL  not sure if this was necessary  I may may not have to run the subst command each time I restart   Don t care    And after throwing in the towel 3 times and spending roughly  6 hours I can open web projects in Visual Studio  2015 Update 2

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In my case  only thing that helped me is to re-install  or repair is easier  IIS 10 0 Express

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I did a repair of Visual Studio 2015 to solve this  The repair took a long time  but it solved the issue while doing much of the above did not  I am running Win 7 enterprise

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In my message  beside complaining about  Unable to access the IIS metabase   it also mentions can t access   lt IISUrl gt http   localhost 6416  lt  IISUrl gt    Right click on the unload project  click Edit  find the line   lt IISUrl gt http   localhost 6416  lt  IISUrl gt    comment it out  Reload and it should work  This has to do with administrator doesn t have permission to access that address

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Open visual studio command prompt and type below command and run  aspnet regiis -ga machinename ASPNET   After running the above command Reset the IIS and test the application that resolve your issue   If above command doesn   t resolve your problem then try to run below command in visual studio command prompt -  aspnet regiis -i   Alternatively we can run above command from our windows command prompt also  Go to the Start menu and open Run and enter and click OK   windir  Microsoft NET Framework v2 0 50727 aspnet regiis exe    I   After that Reset the IIS and test the application that resolves your issue

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Go to the root directory of your project and find the following file   YourProjectName csproj user - inside it  make sure UseIISExpress is set to false    lt UseIISExpress gt false lt  UseIISExpress gt      If that alone doesn t work try the following as well and try again   YourProjectName csproj - inside the main project file  make sure both  UseIIS and UseIISExpress are set to false    lt UseIIS gt True lt  UseIIS gt   lt UseIISExpress gt false lt  UseIISExpress gt     After changing these I was able to load the project again   Note  Make sure you run your VS as an Administrator  as mentioned in the other answers

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I think we encountered a similar problem at work  For us  the solution was to go into Control Panel -  Programs and Features -  Turn Windows Features on or off    inside that  we had to select Internet Information Services -  Web Management Tools -  IIS 6 Management Compatibility -  IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility    Give that a try and let me know if it helps   Note  We re running IIS 7 5 on Windows 7 using both Visual Studio 2005 and 2010 and doing stuff with super-old-school WebServices   asmx

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This seems like one of those  All errors lead to this message  type of bugs    Mine  was that the App Pool was just turned off  I turned it back on  and everything worked fine

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I resolved this issue by granting IIS AppPool identity permissions to the  systemroot  inetsrv config

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I experienced this on a Windows 10 Professional 64-bit machine  and none of the other answers posted here helped   It began happening after I experienced a blue-screen-of-death  and I discovered that UAC had switched itself back on  Running Visual Studio as Administrator alone was not the solution  as my source control was on a network drive  which Visual Studio could not access with UAC on      Turning UAC back off via GPEDIT fixed the problem

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I had this problem - the symptoms were the same  but the issue I had was that I had set the  My Documents  folder to be on a network share  and the share was not accessible    The root problem was that the IIS config files located at  USERPROFILE  Documents are not accessible  Once I changed the  My Documents  folder location  I modified the reg value   it started working again   I know that this may not be a common scenario that you might run into  but I ve posted it here because it gives the same symptoms

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On a windows 81  from an admin command prompt  use    icacls  C  Windows System32 inetsrv config   t  grant  IIS AppPool DefaultAppPool   R    Then go back in VS  right click on the failed project  choose Reload   Credit to  IIS7 Permissions Overview - ApplicationPoolIdentity

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Thank you to everyone that answered  Since this was closed for a long time I couldn t provide much feedback  but I did eventually fix my problem  I tried many of these other solutions and they didn t fix my issue  but I m sure they help when the root cause is different   My Solution  I solved this problem by turning off the IIS and  Net Framework features within Windows 7 and then turning them back on  It seems like this re-installation is what fixed my issue  I still don t know what caused the problem  but at least one other developer on my team had the same issue

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If you have administrator permissions  Right Click to Visual Studio icon   properties and then advanced   Run as administrator  check  You can run visaul studio as administrator directly anymore  This way  formal and so basic

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I m using Win 8 Pro and VS 2013  After trying everything in this page    I simply reinstalled IIS Express 8 and everything works fine now  even without running as an admin    My conclusion is that this is a rather generic error and there are multiple root causes

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You might run across this problem and have same problem as me   I  solved  it before and then power outage and computer crashed  not sure why a registry setting reverted but it is the SOURCE of my problem    I tried all the running as adminstrator All the IIS    IIS express re-installs     Various  hacks    Came down to having to fix the registry again    Could not as administrator even open regedit     Need to access registry   since problem is not with gpedit msc  admin template    UnHookExec inf     on desktop    Just save  UnHookExec inf  and install it by right clicking and selecting install  Installing the file will not show any popup or notice box  http   www tweakandtrick com 2011 04 enable-regedit-registry-editor html   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer User Shell Folders Personal pointing to non-existant fileshare  Changing that to local path solved this problem for me      Pasi Savolainen Jul 14  14 at 8 41    changed from    cs2data home stickelt my documents  to  c  dev     Now ALL is good and Visual Studio opened solution with 15 projects and connects to IIS and does not complain about not being able to access iis metadata  I had never ran into this before  as nobody at current job had this problem   many have been here a long time  some got clones of other machines that  worked   and many are on another domain etc

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On Windows 8 Pro      systemroot  inetsrv config   On Windows 7 and 8 1 and 10   systemroot  System32 inetsrv config     Where  systemroot  is usually C  Windows   Navigate to the appropriate location above in Windows Explorer  You will be blocked access with a popup which says       You don t have access to this folder - Click continue to permanently get access to this folder     Click  continue  for this folder  and with the Export folder underneath  I changed the shortcut back to  Run as me   a member of the domain and local administrators   and was able to open and deploy the solution

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One more thing you could try    Check if you have pending Windows updates   If you do  please reboot before trying anything else    I tend to never shut down my machine  so I had plenty of them waiting for a reboot  And that fixed it

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Run command         c  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -ga  username  c  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -i

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I think you are not running visual studio with administrator permissions  Look that   http   bloggingabout net blogs rick archive 2012 10 04 unable-to-access-the-iis-metabase aspx  To quote     The solution to this is simple  start your Visual Studio with  Run as   Administrator   You can do this by right clicking the shortcut and   selecting  Run as Administrator

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