Exchange 2007 Unknown error (0x80005000)

When you click "Server Configuration" in the Exchange Management Console from a Hub-Transport server on Exchange 2007, you will get the following errors:

The following error(s) were reported while loading topology information:

Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory

Failed

Error:

An error occurred while trying to access IIS (Internet Information Service) metabase. Make sure the Internet Information Service Manager component is installed and configured properly.

Unknown error (0x80005000)

Get-OabVirtualDirectory

Failed

Error:

An error occurred while trying to access IIS (Internet Information Service) metabase. Make sure the Internet Information Service Manager component is installed and configured properly.

Unknown error (0x80005000)

Get-OWAVirtualDirectory

Failed

Error:

An error occurred while trying to access IIS (Internet Information Service) metabase. Make sure the Internet Information Service Manager component is installed and configured properly.

Unknown error (0x80005000)

Because the Hub-Transport server wasn't installed the IIS management binaries.

To solve this problem, you have to install the following IIS components in the Hub Transport server.

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ISAPI-Ext
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Metabase
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Basic-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Digest-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Dyn-Compression

Reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2428673

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