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• 11-21-2008, 2:20 PM

  ErikLydecker Joined on 11-21-2008, 7:17 PM Posts 4	Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact Hi, I have some prob with my IIS7 as you can see. When I try to start the World Wide Web Publichsing Service in Server Manager > Services (in Windows Server 2008) I get the following error: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start. Anyone? Thank you!

• 11-21-2008, 2:29 PM

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  anilr Joined on 05-23-2006, 10:13 PM Redmond, WA Posts 2,343	Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact The services that w3svc depends on are WAS and HTTP services - what errors do you get when trying to start either of those services?  Also, any events in the eventlog from either of those services? Anil Ruia Senior Software Design Engineer IIS Core Server

• 11-21-2008, 2:37 PM

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  ErikLydecker Joined on 11-21-2008, 7:17 PM Posts 4	Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact Hi!  Thank you for your quick answer!  Yes I do have some WAS errors in my event log... I cant find the HTTP service?   /Thanks!

• 11-21-2008, 2:40 PM

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  anilr Joined on 05-23-2006, 10:13 PM Redmond, WA Posts 2,343	Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact And what do the errors say? Anil Ruia Senior Software Design Engineer IIS Core Server

• 11-21-2008, 2:45 PM

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  ErikLydecker Joined on 11-21-2008, 7:17 PM Posts 4

  Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact Log Name:      System Source:        Microsoft-Windows-WAS Date:          2008-11-21 20:38:53 Event ID:      5172 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      WIN-CWW8Y1A5YBS Description: The Windows Process Activation Service encountered an error trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config', line number '1'.  The error message is: 'Configuration file is not well-formed XML '.  The data field contains the error number. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WAS" Guid="{524B5D04-133C-4A62-8362-64E8EDB9CE40}" EventSourceName="WAS" />     <EventID Qualifiers="49152">5172</EventID>     <Version>0</Version>     <Level>2</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Opcode>0</Opcode>     <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-11-22T04:38:53.000Z" />     <EventRecordID>24570</EventRecordID>     <Correlation />     <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>WIN-CWW8Y1A5YBS</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data Name="File">\\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config</Data>     <Data Name="LineNumber">1</Data>     <Data Name="Error">Configuration file is not well-formed XML </Data>     <Binary>0D000780</Binary>   </EventData> </Event>

• 11-23-2008, 11:17 PM

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  qbernard Joined on 03-26-2003, 2:12 AM Malaysia Posts 3,185	Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact Your config file messed up. do you have backup or ? or look at line 1 of the config file. Cheers, Bernard Cheah

• 11-27-2008, 7:20 AM

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  ErikLydecker Joined on 11-21-2008, 7:17 PM Posts 4	Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact I checked the config file... the XML document... it's empty???

• 11-27-2008, 2:51 PM

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  anilr Joined on 05-23-2006, 10:13 PM Redmond, WA Posts 2,343	Re: Error: 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start... Reply Contact Try restoring a backup from \inetpub\history folder. Anil Ruia Senior Software Design Engineer IIS Core Server