Catching 'cannot connect to configuration database' errors with a custom error page
On occasion, our SQL server becomes unavailable and I'd like to display a user friendly error page instead of the plain vanilla "Cannot connect to configuration database" page. Is this possible? I don't think that this page throws an HTTP exception so I'm not sure if IIS's customError config section will handle this condition or not. Any ideas?
July 31st, 2010 3:31pm

This could be done at the Web application level in IIS itself. For your Central admin's web application, you can go to the properties and then to "Custom Errors" tab. Try to set the simple HTML page as the custom error page. This should work even in case of "Cannot connect.." issues. Check this link for help: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/80cb8d8d-8fd8-4af5-bb3b-4d11fff3ab9c.mspx?mfr=trueBR, PM
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August 1st, 2010 2:38pm

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