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IIS 6 Tip

Make sure you have enough disk space for all the metabase history xml files. If IIS can't create a new history file due to insufficient disk space, it will automatically shut down without warning or explanation.

Posted 05-11-2004 6:19 PM by Darrell Norton

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Jeff Key wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-11-2004 2:58 PM
Wow, great to know. Thanks!
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-12-2004 1:57 AM
Sure thing Jeff!
Bernard wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-12-2004 7:16 PM
I was told it won't shutdown and it does write to event log when disk full. Event ID 51257 and 51228.

Cheers.
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-13-2004 2:10 AM
Bernard - I got this from the new Windows Server tips book. I hope the author did his research.
Bernard wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-13-2004 3:41 PM
Ya. I haven't tested it, but I got it from MS.
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-13-2004 3:55 PM
You probably know better than me, being an IIS MVP and all! :)
Bernard wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-13-2004 7:29 PM
Cheers :) If I ever bump to this event id, I will give you a buzz.
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 05-14-2004 2:20 AM
Deal!
Salonge wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 06-28-2004 9:06 AM
I got this error. I discovered when I could not sent email across the network. I have plenty of space on my disk (2 gb). I shut down my server and restarted and it seemed to clear up the problem. Can anyone tell me why this happened?
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 06-29-2004 1:26 AM
Salonge - what error?
Eric wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 07-14-2004 5:30 AM
I have a similar situation as Salonge. Our Exchange 2003 (on Win 2003) server is logging the following text in the system log:

An error occurred while saving the metabase file. This can happen when the metabase XML file is in use by another program, or if the disk is full. Check for corresponding events in the event log for more details.
ErrorCode : 0x8007000E

The source is IIS Config, event ID 51228.
The sysmptoms are queues (in and out) are filling up and mail transfer is extremely slow. Any ideas?
eric@musictoday.com
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 07-14-2004 6:18 AM
Do you have a quota enabled? If not, use WhosLocking to figure out which process is locking the file.

http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/dll/article.php/c3641/
Eric wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 07-14-2004 7:39 AM
Thanks for responding. No, we are not using quotas. So far only inetinfo.exe and a couple of system processes (which we think are metabase backups) are hitting the metabase file. Have you heard of other people reporting problems like this?

Thanks,
Eric
eric@musictoday.com
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 07-14-2004 8:10 AM
Eric wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 07-14-2004 8:35 AM
Thanks, Darrell. We looked at this, but are a bit leary using it in Exchange 2003. They only list Exhcange 5.5 in the notes. Also, we can get dozens of positive hits on the error code, ranging from Exchange and Outlook to even ASP/IIS. It seems to be a fairly generic 'out of memory' error. This is a real head scratcher...
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 07-14-2004 8:54 AM
Sounds like it.
joesterba@nuvotec.com wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 08-02-2004 6:12 AM
We just started getting this IIS Config EventID: 51228 error on our new Exchange Server which shutdown our external mail. We have plenty of disk space. So we are trying to figure out where the conflict is.
Chris wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 08-16-2004 4:32 AM
Has any one figured this one out yet. I am having the same thing happen as Joe.
Jeff wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 09-16-2004 1:26 AM
I am having the same error, event id 51228 in my system log and have lots of disk space available. If I figure out why this is happening I will post.
Jeff wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 09-16-2004 1:36 AM
Darrell wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 09-16-2004 1:43 AM
Thanks Jeff!
Jeff wrote re: IIS 6 Tip
on 09-16-2004 2:08 AM
Also make sure your DNS is setup properly. I just solved mine and it was because the alternate DNS on the exchange 2003 server was an old DNS machine that no longer exists and the server tried to use the alternate DNS for some reason. This caused the smtpsvc to fail and start the whole metabase issue. I recycled IIS Admin along with the other dependants after I properly reconfigured the alternate DNS and now my issue is gone.