Symptom:
Shared Services Administration Site cannot be opened.
and two errors logged in Event Viewer.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1088
Description:
Failed to execute request because the App-Domain could not be created. Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1334
Description:
Failed to initialize the AppDomain:/LM/W3SVC/1937156701/Root
Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException
Message: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
Troubleshooting:
Checked the ID in IIS, 1937156701 point to Shared Services Administration Site, it is OK.
But the error message “Could not load file or assembly…”, was totally misleading.
Did a ProcMon:
The Security seems normal with properly accounts and permissions.
However, the application pool account of Shared Services Administration Site (SSPAdminPool in this issue) was NOT in the WSS_WPG group!
Resolution:
Add application pool account of Shared Services Administration Site to WSS_WPG group.
Comments:
It is weird that I had installed MOSS 2007 dozens of times. It is first of time that the application pool account was not in the WSS_WPG group.
However, I am happy that this issue was resolved. :)