IIS 6: "Path specified cannot be used at this time"
“Path specified cannot be used at this time”
One of my web servers running IIS 6.0 said this to me when I tried to open the Internet Information Services MMC console. It just wouldn’t let me connect to the server via the MMC console. The web sites hosted on the server were available merrily though.
All i had to do to bring the IIS console back to its working state was to restart the IIS Admin service and re-open the IIS MMC console. I guess IIS just needed a little kick to get back to work again.
Update: On 19 Dec, 2007, Microsoft released a hotfix that addresses this issue.
Shijaz Abdulla is a Partner Technology Advisor at Microsoft, helping their top tier partners build on their Microsoft practice. He is also a trusted advisor to medium enterprise customers in Qatar. He is a blogger, tech enthusiast, and a Microsoft evangelist.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946517
Thanks for sharing, anonymous.
Looks like a very recent KB article. It’s great to know that there is a hotfix to prevent this from happening.
The KB article is the correct one. I applied the hotfix and all seems to work fine now. Thanks for this great post.
Hi Shijaz,
Thanks for the post,it resolved my issue.