From: milind.naphade on
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754640.aspx

"Troy Bruder" <troy_bruder(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm confused... What are you asking me to try? These virtuals were all
setup during a fresh installation of Win2k8 and Exchange 2k7 SP1.


<milind.naphade(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ok... you can not write to that file because there is no such location
> available on the physical drive of you server. If you have the path should
> be \\?\BackofficeStorage\<yourADdomainName>\Public Folders. You can edit
> this path into the properties of the each virtual directory you have
> problems with and then save the changes manually. Restart IIS and see if
> you
> can get your OWA working. As far as I understand it, it must have broken
> OWA
> on your exchange server as well. I was referring to were the w3svc and
> HTTPERR logs.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> "Troy Bruder" <troy_bruder(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eGQ7lHOcJHA.1704(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> OK... here's the error when I try to turn off the redirect on the Public:
>
> There was an error while performing this operation.
>
> Details:
>
> Filename: \\?\BackOfficeStorage\our-public-domain-name.com\Public
> Folders\web.config
>
> Error: Cannot write configuration file.
>
>
> Which logs details should i look for?
>
> Troy
>
>
>
> <milind.naphade(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:CF4FDB79-F846-4F60-9FEE-5795044C6D25(a)microsoft.com...
>> Why don�t you go ahead and paste the bunch of errors that you get while
>> applying the changes? you may also want to rename the internal and
>> confidential information.
>>
>> if "Cannot write to configuration file" is the only error message you see
>> then probably you are missing on looking at application logs and the IIS
>> logs as well.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> "Troy Bruder" <troy_bruder(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:#WFj9kFcJHA.552(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> I inadvertently set a HTTP redirect on my Exchange 2007 / IIS7 server on
>> the
>> Default Website and let it apply to all inherited virtual directories.
>> Whoopsie. I was able to simply turn off the redirect on MOST of the
>> virtual
>> directories, but there are a bunch that generate an error when I click
>> Apply
>> changes: Exadmin, Exchange, Exchweb, Public,
>>
>> Error: Cannot write configuration file.
>>
>> Help!! Any ideas for me?
>>
>> Troy
>>
>

From: Jonathan on
Did you ever get this fixed? I am having the same issue.

"Troy Bruder" wrote:

> I inadvertently set a HTTP redirect on my Exchange 2007 / IIS7 server on the
> Default Website and let it apply to all inherited virtual directories.
> Whoopsie. I was able to simply turn off the redirect on MOST of the virtual
> directories, but there are a bunch that generate an error when I click Apply
> changes: Exadmin, Exchange, Exchweb, Public,
>
> Error: Cannot write configuration file.
>
> Help!! Any ideas for me?
>
> Troy
>
>
>