IIS
Location of the MetaBase.xml
The IIS MetaBase.xml is found in:
C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv
If you have problems with a corrupt MetaBase.xml, you can restore the MetaBase.xml file following the instructions here.
How to restore a corrupt MetaBase.xml
Anyone who has played around with the MetaBase.xml for IIS will know the sinking feeling that happens when it seems to just corrupt out of no where and IIS wont start again, you may notice in particular a message in the system event log “service-specific error 2149648394 (0×8021080A)“. Well fortunately Microsoft has identified this is [...]
The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0×8021080A).
So you can’t start IIS? You have looked in the event log to find an IIS error “The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0×8021080A).”
Whenever this has happened to me it has meant that the IIS MetaBase.xml has become corrupt somehow, this is usually from what I can see something to do [...]