Monday, January 7, 2008

Issues starting IIS

This morning, I restarted my computer, tried to browse to a local site for programming and it wouldn't start. Went to IIS to check it out, I noticed it wasn't started and had a red stop sign on the directory of sites. I tried to start it and this is the message I saw:

unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred

Nice, well, I checked the MS online docs and it told me I had another application using the same port. I downloaded tcpView to see which application it could be. TCPView couldn't tell me initially what it could be based on ports. It turned out, that if i stopped Skype, I could restart IIS.

So, resolution, start IIS before Skype, and/or change port settings for Skyp.

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