Error - Unable to access the IIS metabase
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?
Answer
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.