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IIS 8.5 - Illegal Characters in Path

Server 2012 R2 - IIS 8.5 - Exchange 2010

When expanding the Default Web Site node in IIS manager an error dialog pops up with the following message "Illegal Characters in Path" and an Ok button.

IIS backups had an issue due to VSS problems on system drive which is resolved now but I dont have access to IIS history backups.

I do have daily file system backups but it seems difficult manually replacing IIS configuration files, someone might be able to guide me to do that or another way to step back to a good configuration.

Things tried:

Boot safe mode and restore old inetserv config files

Attempt uninstall re-install of IIS - dependencies like Windows Server Essentials need to be removed and I am wary of doing that after having all client computers setup to backup using essentials backup.

Maybe there is some powershell wizardry I can employ.

Cheers.

luddite-technologies

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This may help - looks pretty bog standard to me.

Type               Name                             Physical Path
----               ----                             -------------
directory          App_Data                         C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\App_Data
directory          aspnet_client                    C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\aspnet_client
application        Autodiscover                     C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\Autodiscover
application        Autodiscover\bin                 C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\Autodiscover\bin
application        Autodiscover\help                C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\Autodiscover\help
directory          Bin                              C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\Bin
virtualDirectory   CertEnroll                       C:\Windows\system32\CertSrv\CertEnroll
application        CertSrv                          C:\Windows\system32\CertSrv\en-US
application        Connect                          C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\WebApps\Client
directory          Customization                    C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\Customization
file               Default.aspx                     C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\Default.aspx
application        ecp                              C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\ecp
application        EWS                              C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\exchweb\EWS
application        EWS\bin                          C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\exchweb\EWS\bin
virtualDirectory   Exchange                         C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\owa
virtualDirectory   Exchweb                          C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\owa
application        home                             C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\WebApps\CloudTest
application        Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync      C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\sync
virtualDirectory   OAB                              C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\OAB
application        owa                              C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\owa
application        owa\Calendar                     C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\owa
application        owa\oma                          C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\owa
application        PowerShell                       C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\PowerShell
application        PowerShell-Proxy                 C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange
                                                    Server\V14\ClientAccess\PowerShell
virtualDirectory   Public                           C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\owa
application        Remote                           C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\WebApps\RemoteAccess
directory          Resources                        C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\Resources
file               Robots.txt                       C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\Robots.txt
application        Rpc                              %windir%\System32\RpcProxy
application        RpcWithCert                      %windir%\System32\RpcProxy
application        services                         C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\WebApps\WebApi
file               Web.config                       C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\Web.config

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