Recently I came across an issue where a customer was unable to reinstall IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008. The issue started happening after they upgraded some vendor CGI application that was hosted on IIS. I used the CBS.log which is located at C:\Windows\Logs\CBS folder. Since IIS 7 is all modularized every component you select in IIS will install and uninstall module wise. You will see the CBS logfile has detailed information on what is the new component that is about to be installed and the ... [More]