Unrecognized configuration section ‘connectionStrings’

Henry — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:37:34 +0000

A few weeks back I was working on setting up an ASP application which I knew very little about. Having setup IIS I encountered the follow error message:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section ‘connectionStrings’

Source Error:

Line 20:

Line 21:

Line 22:

Source File: D:\home\Default\website.com\htdocs\web.config Line: 22

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2379; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2379

Well, it turns out this is what happens if you try and run an ASP.NET 2.0 application using ASP.NET 1.1. So just follow these quick steps to cure the problem:

Click Start
Click Run
Type inetmgr (or open the IIS manager from the admin tools)
Expand the server object
Expand Default Websites
Select your website, eg website.com
Right click and go to Properties
Select ASP.Net Tab
ASP.Net version select version 2

If this option isn’t available make sure you have the dotnet framework 2.0 installed. Problem solved!

_sbs_netsetup doesn’t log off

Chris — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:27:07 +0000

We’ve been having lots of fun (or not) installing our action pack version of Small Business Server 2008. All of our client machines need to be disconnected from the old domain and then re-connected to the new one. We decided NOT to use the new 2008 migration tool for reasons which I wont go into here, so are having to migrate manually.

When connecting a computer via the SBS connection wizard (found at the URL http://connect) by default, we found that when the _sbs_netsetup user logs on, that it does not log off again, and any attempt to log off manually just causes it to automatically log back on.

To solve this we needed to grant local administrator rights to the local user _sbs_netsetup. Obviously as the user is currently logged on and you cannot log off in order to log back on as an administrator, it is not possible to do this on the local machine. To do this, follow these steps:

Run MMC on your server

Add computer management snap-in and set it to manage the computer in question

Browse to Local Users and Groups / Users

Add _sbs_netsetup to the Administrators group

Log off the local machine

Now the SBS setup process should complete as normal and you should end up with a machine connected to your domain and ready to go!

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Unrecognized configuration section ‘connectionStrings’

_sbs_netsetup doesn’t log off