Saturday, May 10, 2014

The unable to access IIS issue.

Unable to access the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine.

This was the exception that hit me in the face when trying to load a project in my solution which required to be run on the IIS.

The solution to the issue is easy:

1. %systemroot%\inetsrv\config
On my system, it translates to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config.

2. Just double click to open the folder. You will see a pop-up saying you will have to provide admin permission to continue. Just click 'Continue' and you are done! :)