Clean Install on IIS 7.0 in Windows 2008 RC0

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I was poking around the Windows 2008 RC0 lately with IIS 7.0. While I was trying to install the FTP 7.0 into the server, the service fail to be installed. iisreset has also fail from the command line with the message:

The IIS Admin Service or the World Wide Web Publishing Service, or a service dependent on them failed to start. The service, or dependent services, may had an error during its startup or may be disabled.

I looked up in the Services MMC and the notice that the IIS Admin Services will fail to be started each time the iisreset is performed. This makes the reason for the FTP 7.0 RC0 to fail to install as at the end of the installation, it will run the iisreset command to restart the services.

I have tried uninstalling the Web Server Roles from the server and reinstall everything and it does not helps with the FTP 7.0 installation. Finally, I have make a clean IIS uninstalaltion by running the following command, which uninstall the Windows Process Activation(WAS). I then re-exceute the Web Server Role installation and this time the FTP 7.0 install without any issues

Start /w pkgmgr /uu:IIS-WebServerRole;WAS-WindowsActivationService

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