{"id":747,"date":"2011-05-25T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-05-25T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:18:34","slug":"iis-admin-service-would-not-start-with-error-2146893809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2011\/05\/25\/iis-admin-service-would-not-start-with-error-2146893809\/","title":{"rendered":"IIS Admin service would not start with error -2146893809"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the event viewer you should see error with Event ID 7024.<br \/>\n<em>The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146893809.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2011\/05\/iisadmin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-748\" title=\"iisadmin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2011\/05\/iisadmin-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2011\/05\/iisadmin-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2011\/05\/iisadmin.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a possible fix. For the service to start it needs RSA MachineKey and access to it. The Key is stored in <strong>C:\\Users\\All Users\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Crypto\\RSA\\MachineKeys<\/strong>(for Server 2008)\u00a0 you should see some files in that location with the size of 2 or 3 Kbytes. Look for the file name that starts with <strong>\u2018C23\u2019<\/strong>. This is the key that is used by Microsoft Internet Information Server. Check the permissions on that key and make sure that <strong>\u2018System\u2019 <\/strong>and <strong>\u2018Administrators\u2019 <\/strong>have full control on this key. Once the permissions are set try starting IIS Admin service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the event viewer you should see error with Event ID 7024. The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146893809. Here is a possible fix. For the service to start it needs RSA MachineKey and access to it. The Key is stored in C:\\Users\\All Users\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Crypto\\RSA\\MachineKeys(for Server 2008)\u00a0 you should see some files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[353,4],"tags":[375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}