FMS Deployment - web server error could not get a list of web servers

[Jose D]

I am working with a Virtual Dedicated Server 2008 R2 Standard

IIS is installed with the defaults and ISAPI Filter/Extension options (i only installed IIS with the defaults and later added ISAPI and rebooted the server--I have also enabled 32 bit application pool in IIS as per a previous article on this site)

When i get to the deployment wizard, i cannot get IIS to be picked up by it. The error i am getting is "web server error could not get a list of web servers from the specified machine".

I have done many FMS installs before and have not encountered this problem before

i can access the IIS Site via "localhost" and the machines IP Address as well

I have tried running the FMS service under administrator and local system account (currently as the Local System Acct)

I have tried reinstalling the FMS after each step i perform

I have disabled IPV6 on the Local Area Connection (not sure if it matters)

Here is the IPCONFIG data for the machine (in case it matters - please remember this is a virtual dedicated server so the IP may not seem "stardard" to the regular 192.168.x.x)

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Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 46.17.3.107

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 46.17.3.3

Tunnel adapter isatap.{EF6B6021-8933-4F03-98E0-76A5205C5C6C}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter 6TO4 Adapter:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:2e11:36b::2e11:36b

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2002:c058:6301::c058:6301

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:5ef5:79fb:4a2:2db4:d1ee:fc94

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4a2:2db4:d1ee:fc94%11

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

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anyone with an idea of what i need to do, or even if i have to enable additional features in IIS for this to work, i would appreciate the help. All i have found from FM's website is to "enable the anonymous user" in IIS, which i assume means to have anonymous authentication enabled (if not, please direct me on where to enable this if i am wrong)

thanks for the help!

[Wim Decorte]

I remember a FM KB article on enabling or disabling (I forget) the guest account through the Windows group policy settings. Do a search in the knowledge base for that...