PRB: ASP Running CDONTS Applications Out of Process Fails

• Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) for NTS, version 1.2

SYMPTOMS

When running an Active Server Pages (ASP) page that uses CDONTS Out of Process, you may get one of the following errors:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046'
Permission denied

Error 800900d key does not exist

CAUSE

The problem with running CDONTS out of process is that the process does not have access to the metabase. The metabase is a structure for storing Internet Information Server configuration settings; the metabase performs some of the same functions as the system registry, but uses less disk space.

RESOLUTION

The following note from the "Using IIS Admin Objects" topic of the "Microsoft Internet Information Server" online documentation gives the following warning and workaround:

NOTE: For security purposes, out-of-process applications cannot access the metabase. It is recommended that you retain this default behavior unless special circumstances require otherwise. There are two ways you can modify this behavior, but each introduces some security risk. One approach is to give the IWAM_machinename account access to the metabase, which will allow access to the metabase for all out-process-applications created with this default identity. Another approach is to change the identity of the specific out-of-process-package to some other account identity and give that account access to the metabase. This introduces some risk but less than that introduced by giving metabase access to the IWAM_machinename account.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

In order to give access to the metabase follow the steps below:

1. Open the Microsoft Management Console.



2. Double-click the "SMTP Default Server" (or right-click and select Properties).



3. Click the Operators tab.



4. Click Add and add either the "IWAM_MachineName" account or whatever account you have designated in accordance with the note in the RESOLUTION section.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kberrmsg kbASP kbMsg kbVBScript kbCDONTS kbGrpMsg
Version : WINDOWS:1.2
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb