I am getting the following error when launch EMC on my Win7 machine. I am not getting these errors when launching EMC directly on the Exchange Server. We are running Exchange 2007 on a Win2003 server in a Win2008 R2 domain. Everything is fully patched. Any ideas? -------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Exchange Error -------------------------------------------------------- The following error(s) were reported while loading topology information: 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)

Do you have the IIS binaries loaded on your machine. See this similar thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrtransport/thread/82e1587f-51bd-4839-8867-0ae904670e2d Tim Harrington - Catapult Systems - http://HowDoUC.blogspot.com

I did not have these binaries loaded. What is odd is EMC had been working fine for weeks on my machine. I did not try loading the binaries but another link off the article cited above fixed my problem: http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2009/09/exchange-management-console-issue-on.html I ended up having to load the IIS and IIS 6 management console to get EMC to launch without this error

So you are good now?Tim Harrington - Catapult Systems - http://HowDoUC.blogspot.com

Yes, EMC is working fine now. I am not sure what changed and why I needed to load the IIS management consoles but at least my problem is solved. Thanks for the help. Dave