IIS 7.5 applicationHost.config file is not being updated

Question

I\'m currently playing around with the Microsoft.Web.Administration (MWA) namespace in order to adjust our application to configure IIS 7.5 with the new API. I understood th

Answer 1

As a workaround to open and edit the 64-bit IIS configuration files with your favorite 32-bit editor that is 64-bit compatible (i.e. Notepad++), you can create a Windows directory symbolic link which points to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\Config. With this method, you are replacing the 32-bit Config directory, located at C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\Config to point to the 64-bit version. If, for example, you have an application which requires both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, this method won't work.

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