Posted: 26-February-2010 at 20:15 | IP Logged

Good old Microsoft ...
If your IIS-based websites suddenly stop working with app pool crashes after patching, check out this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaskis/archive/2009/12/09/after-instal ling-kb-973917-the-iis-6-0-application-pools-cannot-start-up .aspx
or
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2009746
Basically, reinstall SP2 for W2K3 when running IIS6...
The morale of the story IS, HOWEVER, as per KB notes...

" (This can occur when installing IIS onto a system running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 by pointing the installer to a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 media location)."