BrowseIIS troubleshooting

[martinkrq]

Hi,

We have been using the browse IIS functionality for multiple years without problems. However on two newly installed Windows 11 24h2 machines it just returns blank even though for example Get-IISSites powershell script works perfectly. On other W11 24H2 machines (same build as well, 26100) it works without problems.

Has someone more ran into these problem recently?
How would i go about troubleshooting this? Neither logs from /exelog nor /L*XV have anything interesting. Nothing in windows event log either.

Thanks in advance
/Martin

[Catalin]

Hello Martin and welcome to our forums,

I've done some research and found the following article, which confirms exactly what you are saying:

IIS no longer displaying my websites

In the same thread, we also have a workaround for this.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Catalin

[martinkrq]

Very slow reply from me now, but that does not solve the problem we are facing. IIS Manager has always shown the sites, it's only in our installer the sites aren't visible. We assume it's some kind of permission-problem but have no idea how to troubleshoot it.

Can you give some information of what sort of API/technology the IIS module is using to gather the sites information from the system?

[Catalin]

Hello Martin,

Can you give some information of what sort of API/technology the IIS module is using to gather the sites information from the system?

Sure thing, I will ask the developer tomorrow (as right now we are outside of working hours) and I will let you know what API we are using for that - most likely, it's something predefined from Microsoft.

Best regards,
Catalin

[Catalin]

Hello Martin,

As promised, here's my followup regarding the API we are using for IIS - this is it:

Application Host Administration Interfaces

This is the API offered by Microsoft.

Best regards,
Catalin