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Cleanup AppFabric Dashboard Part 1: Old virtual paths and phantom applications on IIS

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While you are working with IIS installing and uninstalling web applications you might run into this issue on AppFabric Dashboard:


Another example is this error message:


There are two steps necessary to get a cleaned AppFabric Dashboard.

Delete old virtual paths

Old virtual paths might remain in %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\ApplicationHost.config. To get rid of these crappy virtual paths switch to command line tool and use the following script:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd.exe list vdir

VDIR "Default Web Site/" (physicalPath:%SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot)
VDIR "Default Web Site/Service/App1/" (physicalPath:C:\Service\App1)
VDIR "Default Web Site/Service/App2" (physicalPath:C:\Service\App2)
VDIR "Team Foundation Server/" (physicalPath:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Tools\Templates)
VDIR "Team Foundation Server/tfs/" (physicalPath:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Application Tier\Web Services)
VDIR "Team Foundation Server/tfs/queue/" (physicalPath:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Application Tier\Message Queue)

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd.exe delete vdir "Default Web Site/Service/App1/"
VDIR object "Default Web Site/Service/App1/" deleted

Remove phantom applications

The file might also contain some obsolete application entries. I found the solution here.
Search for application XML nodes in your applicationHost.config file and delete them if the the application does no longer exist. Of course, do not forget to create a backup of the file before you start changing it.

To prevent this issue

Always remove deployments like this to avoid, or at least reduce the risk to run into this issue.


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