Application Server Role: Web Server (IIS) Role: Configuration Error

Scenario

Last week was full of challenge on integrating SharePoint 2010 with JDEdwards ERP system. But the challenge turn around to a new dimension on migrating the SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 in Widows SBS 2008. Even though Microsoft has released a white paper here on how to migrate specifically on SBS 2008 server, there are few arguments going on with the validity and the comprehensiveness of the above white paper.

Problem

I ran into a trouble when I start to execute the Step 5, where the pre-requisites were not installed successfully, rather ended up with an error message saying  “Application Server Role: Web Server (IIS) Role: configuration error”. The error log repeated log the above line more than 25 times.

Solution

After few hours of googling,

• Verify whether “World Wide Web Publishing Service” is started
• Install  KB971831

After doing above steps, I could able to successfully re-install the pre-requisites and continue on with SharePoint migration.

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