Re: IIS fails with error "The IIS Admin Service service terminated unexpectedly"

From: Tom Kaminski [MVP] ((A_at_T))
Date: 04/30/03


Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:58:53 -0400


"Alexander Oleshev" <aoleshev@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OQEBMBxDDHA.2044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello guys,
>
> We have Windows 2000 server with standard IIS 5 with all fixes applied.
> Sometimes (and it started to happen 2-3 weeks ago) IIS fails with error
"IIS
> Admin service terminated unexpectedly", www and smtp services fail as
well.
> If we try to restart them then a number of error messages appear in log
like
> "The service could not bind instance xx. The data is the error code.".
>
> Service cannot be restarted. But once server is rebooted - it works fine
for
> awhile....

Does this help?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;186810

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