IIS7: A process serving application pool 'YYYYY' suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service

Question

We\'re running a 32-bit Windows server 2008 with an IIS version of 7.
We\'re attempting to publish an asp.net 4.0 webapp and so far our attempts have only yielded a few

Answer 1

I was debugging the problem for the better part of the day and when I was close to burning the building I discovered the Process Monitor tool from Sysinternals.

Set it to monitor w3wp.exe and check last events before it exits after you fire a request in the browser. Hope that helps further readers.