How-to download Windows Process Activation Service (WAS)

nickdevyyc picture nickdevyyc · Mar 14, 2013 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I'm getting an error when I try to start an Application Pool in IIS7.

The error is called Service WAS was not found on computer'.'.'

I then googled "download Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) and I can't seem to find away to download it.

I'm running this on AWS on a remote desktop from my Windows 7 OS.

Answer

Knaģis picture Knaģis · Mar 14, 2013

It is included in Windows and no additional download is needed.

You need to open Turn Windows features on or off in Control Panel and install it from there.