Last week I setup a SharePoint server for a government project that we're hosting here at work. I was able to get the old SharePoint site transfered over to our server without any real show stoppers. I did have to re-create user accounts with different passwords and add them to the site. I wanted to allow the users to change their passwords, however the IISADMPWD virtual directory that was in previous versions of Internet Information Services wasn't available
I found Microsoft Knowledge Base article 555071 which provided directions on how to add this into IIS 6.0, which I was able to do, however when I would try to use the pages in that directly (called via URL), I would receive a 404 "Page Not Found" error. If I enable the Directory Browsing option, I was able to see a list of the files in the directory.
Turns out there are two things things the Microsoft article doesn't mention that need to be performed for this to work successfully. Here is what I had to do for this to work successfully:
- Make sure the IISADMPWD virtual directory is in the same Application Pool as the SharePoint site is. To find this, right-click on the IISADMPWD virtual directory, click on "Properties", on the "Virtual Directory" tab make sure the "Application Pool" matches the same value for your SharePoint site running on the server.
- Make sure that "Active Server Pages" is set to "Allowed" in the "Web Service Extensions" for your IIS installation. I'm not sure if these are turned off by default, or if it was set that way based on how I installed IIS on this particular server. In either case, make sure it's set to "Allowed".
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