We have an IIS7.5 farm using shared config which is stored on a central file server (A NAS appliance that i believe runs Samba under the hood). This started out pretty small 2 servers, less than 10% cpu, and just 1 site. Over time, we've migrated more and more apps to this newer farm from our IIS6...

Hello, I have two servers setup with shared configuration in IIS 7. I changed the user name for the shared config on Server1 to a service account with full admin rights locally. Then I went to Server2 and when try to open IIS it would not open the shared config file. obviously because of user name change...

Thanks for the response Anil. I don't want to read too much into your reply but I believe your initial suggestion is correct in this case. As I have Sharepoint, Exchange, TSWebApp...etc installed on the primary server but not on the secondary server. I simply wanted to show shared configuration on...

Yea, I've seen this post and we have started the application pools repeatedly everytime this error occurs. However, as soon as we browse the site again it kills the application pool again and deliveres the same HTTP 503 - Service Unavailable. We were convinced that when we first saw this error message...