Failed to access IIS Metabase

The problem comes around due to the order that components were installed on the machine, namely that The .NET Framework was installed before IIS. As a result, ASP.NET is not correctly configured to run. The easiest way to rectify this is to re-install ASP.NET with IIS.

To do this Go to directory

C:\WINDOWS\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727

and run the following command in command prompt

aspnet_regiis –i