ADSI Scripts Do Not Work Between Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 Computers

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This article was previously published under Q246575

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SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to use ADSI scripts on a computer running Windows 2000 to manage IIS on a computer running Windows NT 4.0, or if try to manage IIS on a Windows 2000 computer from a Windows NT 4.0 computer, the following error messages may occur:

From a Windows 2000 computer to a Windows NT 4.0 computer:
0x800CC810 (MD_ERROR_IISAO_INVALID_SCHEMA)
From a Windows NT 4.0 computer to a Windows 2000 computer:
0x80070003 (ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND)

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CAUSE

Full ADSI management of IIS between different versions of Windows is not fully implemented. The errors are primarily caused by metabase-schema differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

A fix has been generated to allow backward compatibility, thus allowing a computer running IIS 5.0 to remotely administer the metabase on a computer running IIS 4.0 via the IIS Administration Objects (IISAO), the ADSI provider for IIS.

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