Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Central Administration page is unavailable after Forefront Uninstall

After uninstalling Forefront I came across issues launching Central Administration. When checking the Event Viewer there are 2 errors: 2268 and 2214.

Forefront leaves a reference to a .dll in the metabase when you uninstall the program. I searched and came across this article from Microsoft.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943621
So I followed this by opening up the metabase.xml file located in windows\system32\inetsrv and removing these lines:

Once this was done everything was working normally.

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