Err Msg: Unable to Connect to the Active Directory Service Object. Please Contact Your System Administrator

• Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
• Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Attempting to use the IIS HTML Admin from http://localhost/iisadmin may result in the following error message:

Unable to connect to the Active Directory Service Object. Please contact your system administrator.

Error: 70 Permission denied.

CAUSE

The Anonymous account has been enabled for the IISAdmin virtual directory.

RESOLUTION

Remove Anonymous permissions on the IISAdmin virtual directory using the Internet Service Manager.

Additional query words:

Keywords : prodNT4OP
Version : winnt:4.0,5.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb