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        Avoiding Metabase Corruption

Section(s): Network
Published on Aug 11, 2005.
Last Modified on Aug 11, 2005.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
Rated 4 out of 5 based on 3 votes.

IIS 6 on W2K3 has a new feature that helps prevent metabase corruption.

IIS 6 on W2K3 has a new feature that helps prevent metabase corruption, something that happened often with IIS 5 on W2K. The way it works is like this: if you enable direct metabase editing in IIS 6 and make a change to the metabase using Notepad and the change you make is not well-formed (i.e. syntactically correct) XML, then the last saved version of the metabase from the metabase history file is used to replace the corrupted in-memory metabase. Pretty cool, but don't get carried away as this won't protect you from corrputing the metabase by writing well-formed but meaningless XML!

About Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .